Studying first with François Élie Vincent (1708–1790), a miniaturist whose Paris studio was in the same street as her father’s shop, Adélaïde Labille embarked upon her career before she was twenty
Washington. National Gallery of Art.
Washington, 2014, p. 97, fig. 10 (color), sees it as a precedent for the artist’s
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master’s certificate in museum collections management and care from the George Washington
Exh. cat., National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
discusses it with two other still lifes from the same period (National Gallery of Art, Washington
Inscription: (as in order on object): Exaseru[n]t . senes . / . los suos ut . no[n] . vide / susAnna . et . / . in co[n]cupiscentia[m] / declinaveru[n]t ocu / re[n]t c[a]elu[m] . dAniel 13 [should be Exaserunt senes in concupiscentiam Susanna et declinaverunt oculos suos ut non viderent caelum, Daniel 13] (the old men were inflamed in desire by Susanna and turned away their eyes so that they might not see heaven [Daniel 13:8-9])
Washington, D.C.: National Art Gallery, 1991. pp. 156–57.
Utica, N.Y., 1862–Florence, 1928
acquired by the Victoria and Albert Museum in London and the Phillips Collection in Washington
from the artist; Galerie Robert Schmit, Paris (founded 1964); private collection, Washington
Eltville am Rhein, Germany, 1873–Bad Honnef, Germany, 1955
He purchased Pablo Picasso’s The Tragedy (1903; National Gallery of Art, Washington
Milan, 1885–Milan 1969
Museum of Modern Art, New York, and Nude Woman (1910; National Gallery of Art, Washington
