The Adoration of the Skulls, c. 1733/1734

West Building, Main Floor — Gallery 55

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 52.8 x 63.6 cm (20 13/16 x 25 1/16 in.)

framed: 66.7 x 77.5 x 3.2 cm (26 1/4 x 30 1/2 x 1 1/4 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Lewis Einstein

Accession Number

1956.3.1

Artists / Makers

Michel-François Dandré-Bardon (painter) French, 1700 - 1783

Image Use

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Provenance

Probably Rizson.[1] Lewis Einstein [1877-1967], Paris; gift 1956 to NGA

[1] This name was written on painting's old stretcher, which was replaced during the relining in 1967. According to the original accession card for the painting, there was also on the old stretcher a "circular red wax seal with coat of arms and text." A photograph was taken of the handwriting on the stretcher, but there appears to have been none taken of the seal; the photograph and accession card are in NGA curatorial files.

Associated Names

Einstein, Lewis D.
Rizson

Exhibition History

1967: Loan for display with permanent collection, Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia, Athens, 1967-1971.

1975: The Age of Louis XV: French Painting 1710-1774, The Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio; The Art Institute of Chicago; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, 1975-1976, no. 23, repro.

1976: Loan for display with permanent collection, Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, Florida, 1976.

Bibliography

1965: Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 53, as French School.

1968: National Gallery of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. Washington, 1968: 45, repro., as French School

1974: Rosenberg, Pierre. "Dandré-Bardon as a Draughtsman: A Group of Drawings at Stuttgart." Master Drawings 12, no. 2 (Summer 1974): 137-151.

1975: European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 136, repro., as French School

1984: Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 338, no. 458, color repro.

1985: European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 112, repro.

1987: Chol, Daniel. Michel François Dandré-Bardon ou l'apogée de la peinture en Provence au XVIIIe siècle. Aix-en-Provence, 1987: 37, no. 43, repro.

1998: Rosenberg, Pierre. "Un chef d'oeuvre de Dandré-Bardon (1700-1783) pour le Louvre." Revue du Louvres et des Musées de France 48, no. 5 (1998): 40-45, no. 2, color repro.

2009: Conisbee, Philip, et al. French Paintings of the Fifteenth through the Eighteenth Century. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 2009: no. 25, 128-132, color repro.