19th-Century European Art
19th-Century European Art
Joseph Sold by His Brothers
Auction Closed
February 5, 09:31 PM GMT
Estimate
12,000 - 18,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Hippolyte-Jean Flandrin
French 1809 - 1864
Joseph Sold by His Brothers
signed and dated lower left: Hte Flandrin. 1859
oil on paper, mounted on board
board: 19 ½ by 21 ½ in.; 49.5 by 54.6 cm
framed: 26 by 28 in.; 66 by 71.1 cm
Studio of the Artist;
His estate sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 15-17 May 1865, lot 9;
Whereby acquired by Pillet-Will, Paris;
Private collection, France;
With W.M. Brady & Co., Inc., New York;
Private collection.
H. Delaborde, "La Peinture Religieuse en France: M. Hippolyte Flandrin," Revue des Deux Mondes, vol. 24, 15 December 1859, p. 886.
Paris, École Impériale des beaux-arts, Exposition des œuvres d’Hippolyte Flandrin, 1865, no. 3 (within no. 86, the group of eighteen studies of the nave's murals) or no. 93 (lent by Ingres) (possibly)
Hippolyte-Jean Flandrin probably painted the present work as a preparatory study for his monumental mural cycle in the Church of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, completed between 1856 and 1861. Realized in oil on paper mounted on board, the signed composition depicts the biblical scene of Joseph being sold into slavery by his brothers, a subject central to Flandrin’s naive cycle as well as his broader corpus of related naive studies, now housed in institutions such as The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) and The Louvre. Joseph Sold by His Brothers was acquired from his studio estate sale in 1865 and was most likely exhibited at the Exposition des œuvres d’Hippolyte Flandrin at the École Impériale des beaux-arts the same year.