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Title:
Christ healing the sick in the temple
Maker:
West, Benjamin; painter; American artist, 1738-1820
Category:
painting
Name:
painting
Date:
circa 1780 — 1781
School/Style:
British
Production
Note:
An early design for the decoration of Windsor Castle chapel.
Technique:
painting (image-making)
Material(s):
oil paint; medium
canvas; support
Technique
Description:
oil on canvas
Dimension(s):
height, 90.5, cm
width, 69.8, cm
Acquisition:
given; 1908; Fairfax Murray, Charles
Provenance:
West family; Benjamin West posthumous sale, London, Robins, 20-5 May 1829 (128), bt. Wood
Notes:
Engraved: by Benjamin Smith, published 1813.
Inscription(s):
; verso, frame; white chalk; 20 ?
label; verso; MS; A sketch in C... / for one of the Windows..... / George's Chapel... / the late Benjamin [West] [Presi] / dent of the Royal Academy / Price £50
; verso; red chalk; 2622
stencil; verso, stretcher; 2447 (?last figure)
; verso, canvas; black paint; 439K
label; verso, frame; MS; West Esq / Horsham
Documentation:
Goodison, J.W.. 1977. Catalogue of Paintings in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, Vol. III, British School.Cambridge (Cambs.): Cambridge University Pressp. 278-279
Erffa, Helmut von. Staley, Alan. 1986. The Paintings of Benjamin West.p. 346
cat. no. 335, reproduced
Dillenberger, John. 1977. Benjamin West, the context of his life's work with a particuliar attention to paintings with religious subjects matter.San Antonio: p. 71, 81, 115-117
Reproduced (black and white) p.74
Accession:
Object Number: 656
(Paintings, Drawings and Prints)
(record id: 4021; input: 2000-04-14; modified: 2011-02-09)
Permanent
Identifier:
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