Jean Simon Berthélemy
Saint Carlo Borromeo Attending to the Plague Victims

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Artist Jean Simon BerthélemyFrench, 1743–1811

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

Not on view

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Department

Arts of Europe and the Mediterranean

Object Type

PAINTING

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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