The Expulsion from Paradise

Alexandre Cabanel (1823 - 1889), c. 1867

oil on canvas, 60.3 cm x 45.1 cm

Credits: Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam

Object number
s0443M1994
Dimensions
60.3 cm x 45.1 cm, 79.1 cm x 63.9 cm
Provenance
Auction Paris, Galerie George Petit (Tableaux Aquarelles et Dessins provenant de l’Atelier Alexandre Cabanel), lot 31 (Le Paradis perdu), sold for FRF 1.250, 22-25 May 1889; Roderick Cameron, Staten Island (N.Y.); after his death in 1900 bequeathed to his heirs; consigned by these heirs to auction New York, The Anderson Galleries (Paintings of the American & Barbizon Schools Together With Some Old Masters), lot 52 (The Expulsion from Paradise), probably purchased by Newhouse Galleries, St. Louis with possibly Albert du Vannes, 9 December 1925; sold by Newhouse Galleries, New York, 24 November 1928; private collector, California, from c. 1950; consigned by this private collector to auction New York, Christie’s (19th Century European Paintings, Drawings, Watercolors and Sculpture), lot 33 (Study for Paradis Perdu), unsold, 27 May 1993; again consigned by this private collector to auction New York, Christie’s (19th Century European Paintings, Drawings and Watercolors), lot 12 (Expulsion from Paradise), purchased by the Rijksmuseum Vincent van Gogh, 15 February 1994, for USD 36.800, and at the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, since 1 July 1994.
artist
Alexandre Cabanel
Credits
Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam

Zagreb, Umjetnicki Paviljon, Vlaho Bukovac, 20 September 2018-6 January 2019

Cologne, Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Alexandre Cabanel. La tradition du beau, 4 February-15 May 2011

Montpellier, Musée Fabre, Alexandre Cabanel. La tradition du beau, 10 July-5 December 2010

Paris, Musée d'Orsay, Crime et châtiment, 16 March-27 June 2010

Van Gogh Museum : jaarverslag 1993 & eerste helft 1994, 1995, p. 23

Hilaire, M., Amic, Sylvain, Alexandre Cabanel : the tradition of beauty, 2011

19th century European paintings, drawings, watercolors and sculpture, 1993, no. 33

Vergeest, Aukje, The French collection : nineteenth-century French paintings in Dutch public collections, 2000, p. 86

Leeuw, Ronald de, Tilborgh, Louis van, Esner, Rachel, Becker, Edwin, Heugten, Sjraar van, Leeman, Fred, Vriend, Anita, Van Gogh Museum Journal 1995, 1995, p. 180-181

Clair, J., Crime et châtiment, 2010, p. 50, 392

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