Meleager Surrounded By His Beseeching Family
François Guillaume Menageot
(French, 1744–1816)
1798–1809
Object PlaceParis, France
Medium/TechniqueWool and silk, tapestry
DimensionsOverall: 419.1 x 325.1cm (165 x 128in.)
Credit LineCharles Potter Kling Fund
Accession number2002.56
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Not on viewClassificationsTextiles
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Provenance1809, tapestry completed for Napoleon I, Emperor of the French (b. 1769 - d. 1821) and hung in the Galerie de Diane, Tuileries, Paris; 1811, presented by Napoleon to his mother, Letizia Ramolino ("Madame Mère," b. 1750 - d. 1836), Rome. Attilio Simonetti (b. 1843 - d. 1925), Rome. Riccardo Gualino (b. 1879 - d. 1964), Turin. By 1926, Camillo Castiglioni (b. 1879 - d. 1957), Vienna; July 13-15, 1926, Castiglioni sale, Frederik Muller, Amsterdam, lot 163; November 28-29, 1930, Castiglioni sale, Ball and Graupe, Berlin, lot 459, sold for M 4500 [see note 1]. 1939, acquired in Paris by an unidentified private collector; until at least 1978, remained in this private collection [see note 2]. 2002, S. Franses, Ltd., London; 2002, sold by Franses to the MFA. (Accession Date: March 20, 2002)
NOTES:
[1] Although in the 1926 Castiglioni auction catalogue this was correctly said to represent Meleager surrounded by his family, in the 1930 catalogue it was called Coriolanus and the Roman Women. [2] See Nicole Willk-Brocard, François-Guillaume Ménageot (1744-1816): Peintre d'Histoire, Directeur de l'Académie de France à Rome (Paris: Arthena, [1978]), p. 75.
NOTES:
[1] Although in the 1926 Castiglioni auction catalogue this was correctly said to represent Meleager surrounded by his family, in the 1930 catalogue it was called Coriolanus and the Roman Women. [2] See Nicole Willk-Brocard, François-Guillaume Ménageot (1744-1816): Peintre d'Histoire, Directeur de l'Académie de France à Rome (Paris: Arthena, [1978]), p. 75.
Maximilien de Haese
about 1771–75
4th–5th century A.D.
Nicaise Aerts
Second half of the 16th or first quarter of the 17th century
Francesco Albani
First half of the 18th century A.D. 1700–50
First quarter of the 16th century
Albrecht Dürer
First quarter of the 16th century