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The Rape of Tamar, probably ca. 1640
Eustache Le Sueur (French, 1616–1655)
Oil on canvas; 74 1/2 x 63 1/2 in. (189.2 x 161.3 cm)
Purchase, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wrightsman Gift, 1984 (1984.342)

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Nourri, Paris (his sale, Paris, February 24, 1785, no. 104, as by Eustache Le Sueur "fait dans l'école de Vouet. . . une composition de trois figures dans un intérieur enrichi d'architecture; l'on voit sur le devant une femme assise à qui un soldat presente une coupe d'une main, et tient de l'autre un poignard; 71 pouces de haut sur 57 pouces 6 lignes de large"; for 400 Livres to Folliot); private collection (until 1983; sale, Christie's, London, December 2, 1983, no. 45, as "Tarquin and Lucretia" by the circle of Simon Vouet; for £108,000 to Stair Sainty Matthiesen); [Stair Sainty Matthiesen, New York, 1983–84; sold to MMA]

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