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Aegina Visited by Jupiter, 1767–69
Jean Baptiste Greuze (French, 1725–1805)
Oil on canvas; 57 7/8 x 77 1/8 in. (147 x 195.9 cm)
Gift of Harry N. Abrams and Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, Pfeiffer, Fletcher, and Rogers Funds, 1970 (1970.295)
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Provenance/Ownership History
?the artist's daughter, Caroline Greuze, Paris (before d. 1842); Monsieur Lapeyrière, Paris (until 1825; his sale, Lacoste, Henry, Paris, April 19ff., 1825, no. 185, as "Jupiter et Danaé," for Fr 801 to Dubois); Dubois (from 1825); Everard Rhoné [or possibly Rosné] (in 1846); Monsieur Bonnet (by 1860–d. 1885; his estate sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, June 2, 1885, no. 1, for Fr 30,000 or 40,000 to Brame); [Brame, Paris, from 1885]; Monsieur Levesque, Paris (by 1900–at least 1901); [Trotti, Paris, in 1923]; baron Maurice de Rothschild, Paris (by 1926–at least 1929); [Wildenstein, Paris]; William Randolph Hearst, New York (by 1939–41; his sale, Hammer Galleries, New York, 1941, no. 301–4, almost certainly to Wildenstein); [Wildenstein, New York, 1941–70; sold to and exchanged with MMA]
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