Pierre Mignard
Pan and Syrinx

ArtistFrench, 1612–1695
CultureFrench
Titles
  • Pan and Syrinx
Datec. 1688–90
PlaceFrance
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensionsimage: 28 3/4 × 38 1/2 in. (73 × 97.4 cm)

Credit LineSarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation, Houston
Object numberBF.1989.5
Current Location
The Audrey Jones Beck Building
214 Blaffer Galleries
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ProvenanceMartin Desjardins, as of August 9, 1694; [Didot, Paris, April 9, 1764, lot 95, purchased by M. de Langeac] [1]; Gaspard Augustin Barbier de la Bonnetière; [Madame Barbier de la Bonnetière sale, Nantes, May 16, 1859, lot 212–54, bought in]; Baron Charles-Gabriel-René Berlion de la Tour-du-Pin-Chambly de la Charce (1820–1891); [his sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, February 26, 1894, lot 46]; Marquis de Lastic, Paris; [Stair Sainty Matthiesen, New York]; purchased by the Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation, 1989.

[1] Sale “de très beaux tableaux, dessins et estampes de maîtres des trois écoles . . . partie de ces effets y viennent de la succession de feu M. J-B de Troy (this sale consisted in reality of few of the objects from the De Troy inheritance; the Blaffer painting was not, in any case, part of the collection of the former director of the French Academy in Rome).

Exhibition History"The Old Masters: Selections from the Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation," Nave Museum, Victoria, Texas, May 22–July 6, 2003.

"Masterpieces from the Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation," Greater Denton Arts Council, Texas, September 16–October 26, 2006.

"Masterworks from the Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation," Michelson Museum of Art, Marshall, Texas, November 11, 2006–March 9, 2007.

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