Time Clipping Cupid's Wings

1694

Pierre Mignard, Time Clipping Cupid's Wings, 1694. Oil paint on canvas; 26 × 21 1/4 in. (66 × 54 cm). Denver Art Museum: T. Edward and Tullah Hanley by exchange and Mr. and Mrs. Charles P. Gallagher, 2000.201

Artist

Pierre Mignard, French, 1612-1695

Country

France

Object

painting

Medium

Oil paint on canvas

Dimensions

height: 26 in, 66.0400 cm; width: 21.25 in, 53.9750 cm; frame height: 32 1/4 in, 81.9150 cm; frame width: 27 1/2 in, 69.8500 cm; image height: 25 in, 63.5000 cm; image width: 20.188 in, 51.2775 cm

Inscription

[lower right] P. Mignard pinxit 1694/Aetatis 82.

Credit Line

T. Edward and Tullah Hanley by exchange and Mr. and Mrs. Charles P. Gallagher

Department

European and American Art Before 1900

Collection

European Painting and Sculpture before 1900

Accession Number

2000.201

Known Provenance

Defferre family by the 1920's; Jacques Defferre [1910-?] by inheritance [from his great-uncle]; purchased Dec. 1995 at (Eric Beaussant & Pierre-Yves Lefèvre, Paris) from Jacques Defferre by (Stiebel, Inc., New York); purchased Nov. 2000 from (Stiebel, Inc., New York) by the Denver Art Museum. Provenance research is on-going at the Denver Art Museum and we will post information as it becomes available. Please e-mail provenance@denverartmuseum.org, if you have questions, or if you have additional information to share with us.

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