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Title
Hector reproving Paris [graphic] / Richard Cook.
Created/published
1808.
Description
1 painting on canvas : oil ; 29.4 x 25 cm + frame ca. 18 x 15.5 in.
Associated name
Cook, Richard, 1784-1857, artist.
Note
Written at top of relined canvas in pencil, presumably what had been on the original canvas: "April 1808".
In the early nineteenth century David's painting was on view at Versailles, but it had also been engraved twice by the time Cook executed his work, in 1790 and 1802. See the exhibition catalogue David, Editions de la Reunion des Musees Nationaux, Paris, 1989, no. 79.
One would like to know if there is also a relationship between no. 16 and Westall's now missing Helen on the Scaen Gate, Come to View the Combat between Paris and Menelaus, which he exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1805.
Title from Pressly.
In the early nineteenth century David's painting was on view at Versailles, but it had also been engraved twice by the time Cook executed his work, in 1790 and 1802. See the exhibition catalogue David, Editions de la Reunion des Musees Nationaux, Paris, 1989, no. 79.
One would like to know if there is also a relationship between no. 16 and Westall's now missing Helen on the Scaen Gate, Come to View the Combat between Paris and Menelaus, which he exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1805.
Title from Pressly.
Provenance
Provenance: A number of oil sketches of Hector Reproving Paris sold at the artist's posthumous sale held at Christie's on 1 June 1857 (lots 246, 276, 290, and 315). If the Folger paintings were in the sale and were sold together, then the likely lots are narrowed to 246 ("Hector and Paris, &c.-in oils"[five works in all]) and 264 ("Two, from the Iliad; and two, from the Odyssey"); Parson, June 1929, £11 less 10 perecent (information on back of Parson's photograph of each painting), both works sold as by Thomas Stothard, no. 16 as a scene from Pericles, no. 17 as a scene from Antony and Cleopatra.
Exhibited
Exhibited: Washington, D.C., Federal Reserve Board, "Eighteenth- and Nineteenth Century English Painting," 1976-1977, no. 21, as Stothard's Anthony and Cleopatra.
Cited/described in
Pressly, W.L. Paintings in the Folger Shakespeare Library, 17
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Digital image(s) of Folger Shakespeare Library FPa74
Genre/form
Paintings.
Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- England.
Item Details
Call number
FPa74 (rack D-1A)
Folger-specific note
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Folger accession
cs1916