Jean Simon Berthélemy
Saint Carlo Borromeo Attending to the Plague Victims

CultureFrench
Titles
  • Saint Carlo Borromeo Attending to the Plague Victims
Date1778
PlaceFrance
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions26 1/8 in. (66.4 cm) (diameter)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Laurence H. Favrot Bequest
Object number70.20
Non exposé

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ProvenanceGeorges Cain, Paris, France, 1930

Mme. Cain estate sale, Paris, France, Hotel Druot, March 1939, no. 77

Cailleux, S.A., Paris, France; from there purchased by the museum on May 18, 1970.
Exhibition HistoryExhibited: "A Permanent Heritage: Major Works from the Collection," The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 23 October 1980 - 4 January, 1981.

Exhibited: "La Grande Maniere: Historical Painting in France - 1700-1800," University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, 30 April - 16 August 1987; Jane Vorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers,University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, 6 September - 11 November 1987 (LN: 87.2).

Loaned to Cypress Creek Christian Church and Community Center for display from October 29, 1997 to June 27, 2001.

Exhibited: "Art's Lament: Creativity in the Face of Death," at Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, September 9 to October 23, 1994, and at Bowdoin College Museum of Art, November 7 to December 31, 1994 (LN:94.26)

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