Old Testament Figures in Paradise

Painting and Sculpture of Europe

1751/60

Francisco Bayeu y Subías, attributed to
Spanish, 1734-1795
(after Corrado Giaquinto, Italian, 1693/99-1765)

Currently Off View: Painting and Sculpture of Europe

Artist: Don Francisco Bayeu y Subías
Title: Old Testament Figures in Paradise
Origin: Spain
Date: 1751–1760
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 16 1/8 × 39 1/2 in. (41 × 100.3 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of Mrs. Everett L. Millard and Mrs. John H. Harmon in memory of their mother, Mrs. Charles T. Boynton
Reference Number: 1941.830

Decatur, Ill., Art Center, “Masterpieces of the Old and New World,” 1948, cat. 9.
New Haven, Yale University Art Gallery, A Taste for Angels: Neapolitan Painting in North America, 1650–1750, September 9-November 22, 1987, cat. 45; Sarasota, Florida, John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, December 167, 1987-February 7, 1988; Kansas City, Missouri, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, April - May 1988.

Probably Charles Boynton (died 1923), Highland Park, IL; probably his widow Anna Bell Boynton (died 1938); Elizabeth Boynton Millard and her sister, Edith Boynton Harmon, by 1941; given to the Art Institute, 1941.

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