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Fallen Angels
Edouard Cibot (French, 1799–1877)

Title

Fallen Angels

Artist

Edouard Cibot (French, 1799–1877)

Date

1833

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

49 × 37 1/2 in. (124.5 × 95.3 cm)

Classification

Painting

Credit Line

Museum purchase

Object Number

1995.18

On View

On view

Provenance

Galerie Elstir, Paris, by May 29, 1995;
Purchased from Galerie Elstir by Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska, 1995.

Exhibition History

Salon, Paris, 1833, no. 404.

Titian to Monet: European Paintings from Joslyn Art Museum, Taubman Museum of Art, Roanoke, VA, October 14, 2022–January 8, 2023; Rembrandt to Monet: 500 Years of European Painting from Joslyn Art Museum, Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK, February 22–May 28, 2023.

Published References

Explication des ouvrages de peinture, sculpture, architecture, gravure et lithographie des artistes vivans: exposés au Musée royal le 1er Mars 1833 (Paris: Vinchon, 1833), 30, no. 404.

Kyle MacMillan, “Joslyn Exhibit Unveils Significant Acquisitions,” Omaha World-Herald, July 25, 1995, 28–29, (repro.).

Nina Corazzo, “Signs of Sin and Nineteenth-Century Constructions of Masculinity: Francois-Edouard Cibot’s The Fallen Angels (Les Anges Dechus), 1833,” in Semiotics, ed. C. W. Spinks and John Deely (New York: Peter Lang, 1999), 258–270.

Keane Angela, The Crack in the Air: Poems from the Prairie (Denver: Story Preserves, 2012), 82.

Taylor J. Acosta, European Paintings and Sculpture from Joslyn Art Museum (Omaha: Joslyn Art Museum, 2020), 134–35, (repro.).