Noah Sacrificing
- Noah Sacrificing
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This gestural sketch is thought to be a study for Noah Sacrificing (c. 1801, San Antonio Museum of Art), a scene included in West’s mural commission for the unrealized royal chapel at Windsor on the subject of revealed religion. Noah, standing before an altar with upraised hands, is surrounded by loosely drawn people and animals.
Related examples: Two drawings by West on the subject of Noah Sacrificing, one in black chalk, one in pen and ink, date to the 1790s, the Pierpont Morgan Library, New York.
Book excerpt: David B. Warren, Michael K. Brown, Elizabeth Ann Coleman, and Emily Ballew Neff. American Decorative Arts and Paintings in the Bayou Bend Collection. Houston: Princeton Univ. Press, 1998.
ProvenanceMr. and Mrs. Lawrence A. Fleischman, Detroit; [Kennedy Galleries, New York]; purchased by Miss Ima Hogg, 1967; given to MFAH.
Exhibition History"American Drawings, Pastels and Watercolors, Part One: Works of the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries," Kennedy Galleries, New York, March 14–April 28, 1967, no.4.
Published References Warren, David B. Bayou Bend: American Furniture, Paintings and Silver from the Bayou Bend Collection. Houston: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1975, pp. 136–37, no. 257; Kraemer, Ruth. Drawings by Benjamin West and His Son Raphael Lamar West. New York: Pierpont Morgan Library, 1975, pp. 31–32. nos. 48, 49 (mistakenly listed as on the New York market); von Erffa, Helmut, and Allen Staley. The Paintings of Benjamin West. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1986, p. 287. Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
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