Attributed to Charles Thévenin

With Galerie Cailleux, Paris, by 1973.

Paris, Galerie Cailleux, Autour du Néoclassicisme, 1973, no. 28 (as Ecole Française);
Charlottesville, Virginia, University of Virginia Art Museum, Bicentennial Exhibition, Spring 1976 (as Baron Gerard);
New Haven, Yale University Art Gallery, Gesture and Expression: The Language of Art in the Age of Revolution, 28 February - 30 April 1989;
Chicago, Richard L. Feigen & Co., The Biblical Image, 9 December 1988 - January 1989 (as Baron Gerard).

Relined. painting is presentable as is. there is very good preservation of the paint surface with nice, thick impasto. examination under ultraviolet reveals small retouchings to central figure's white drapery; a few to some of the flesh tones and a few here and there in background. varnish fluoresces unevenly and some areas that are fluorescing seem to be due to the varnish and not to retouching. retouchings mentioned have been well applied and there is no need for further work. In a carved and gilt wood frame.
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This painting is related to the work presented by Thévenin as his entry for the Prix de Rome in 1789 (Musée des Beaux-Arts, Angers). In fact, it may be a preparatory sketch for that final entry, which won the second prize medal.  First prize was shared by Girodet and Meynier.