Woman Holding a Child Up To Touch a Statue of Aesculapius

Louis Hector Leroux, French, 1829 - 1900

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1869

Oil on canvas

Canvas: 27 7/8 × 17 13/16 in. (70.8 × 45.2 cm)

Frame: 34 1/4 × 24 × 3 1/8 in. (87 × 61 × 8 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Alan P. Jones 1919 Fund

P.982.45

Geography

Place Made: France, Europe

Period

19th century

Object Name

Painting

Research Area

Nazi-Era Provenance Research

Painting

Not on view

Inscriptions

Signed, dated and inscribed, lower left to lower center: Hector LeROUX Rome 1869

Exhibition History

A Space for Dialogue 2, Maggie Lind, Class of 2002, Curatorial Intern, Main Lobby, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, December 15, 2001-January 20, 2002.

French and Continental Drawings, Watercolors, Paintings and Sculpture of the Nineteenthe Century, Spring Exhibtion, Shepherd Gallery, New York, New York, 1982.

The Dartmouth Collection: 19th and 20th Century Paintings, Jaffe-Friede Gallery, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, September 17-November 6, 1982.

Publication History

Shepherd Gallery, Nineteenth Century European Drawings, Paintings and Sculpture, Winter Exhibition, New York, 1979, no. 64. ill.

Provenance

Shepherd Gallery, New York, New York, date unknown; sold to present collection, 1982.

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