Iconography

LITERATURE

Ancient / Vergil / Aeneid / Book II: Aeneas recounts the sack of Troy / vv. 721-741: Aeneas fleeing Troy / With Anchises and Ascanius / Protagonists alone

Further details

By Rosenthal regarded as early sketch by Pierre Lepautre for his Tuileries statue, hence from c1696; Jennifer Montagu suggested attributing it to Guiard

Artist or creator

Guiard, Laurent (1723-1788) (attributed)

Date

18th century (second half)

Location

Paris, Galerie Georges Petit (Auction Sale of the collection Marquis de Biron, 9-11 June 1914, lot 106)

Auction

Galerie Georges Petit [09/06/1914]

Notes on photograph

Bibliographic Citation

Gertrude Rosenthal, Pierre Lepautre and His Aeneas Group, Journal of the Walters Art Gallery 6 (1943), pp. 70-81

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Acknowledgements

Record created with the generous support of the Kress foundation

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