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
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.).