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The Death of Socrates
Jean-François-Pierre Peyron (French, 1744–1814)
Title
The Death of Socrates
Artist
Jean-François-Pierre Peyron (French, 1744–1814)
Date
1788
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
39 × 53 1/2 in. (99.1 × 135.9 cm)
Classification
Painting
Credit Line
Museum purchase with additional funds from the Robert H. and Mildred T. Storz Trust; E. James and Norma Fuller; Joseph and Lenore Polack; First National Bank of Omaha; The Ethel S. Abbott Charitable Foundation; Jacqueline Vrana; and Thomas and Cynthia McGowan
Object Number
1999.55
On View
On view
Provenance
Société des amis des arts, lottery of October 15, 1790, no. 57.
Probably Gabriel Thomas Marie, comte d'Arjuzon (1761–1851), Paris;
His posthumous sale, Paris, March 2–4, 1852, lot 19.
Purchased by Garcia Olano, Buenos Aires, in France c. 1930;
Purchased from Garcia Olano by Josefina Enriqueta Valentina de Albuquerque, Buenos Aires;
By descent to her grandson [1];
Consigned Robert Simon Fine Art, New York, by 1999;
Purchased from Robert Simon Fine Art, New York, by Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska, 1999.
[1] The painting was purchased in France around 1930 by an Argentine diplomat named Garcia Olano, who was posted in France and Spain prior to the Spanish Civil War. After his return to Buenos Aires, the painting was sole into the collection of Josefina Enriqueta Valentina de Albuquerque, and then passed by descent in that family. Robert Simon had the painting on consignment from the grandson of Josefina Enriqueta de Albuquerque. According to Robert Simon in a letter to Claudia Einecke, Associate Curator of European Art, July 9, 1999, Joslyn Art Museum object file.
Exhibition History
Société des amis des arts, Paris, July 13–August 1790, no. 15.
Figure and Fantasy in French Painting, Berry-Hill Galleries, New York, January 21–March 6, 1999.
Final Moments: Peyron, David, and “The Death of Socrates,” Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, February 3–April 1, 2001, no 3.
Antiquity Revived: Neoclassical Art in the Eighteenth Century, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, March 20–May 30, 2011.
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
Journal Gratuit, Sixième classe, Beaux-Arts 15 (August 1790), 234.
Le Moniteur Universel, no. 291, October 18, 1790), 234.
Pierre Rosenberg and Udolpho can de Sandt, Pierre Peyron 1744–1814 (Paris: Arthena, 1983), 124–29, no. 118.
Robert B. Simon, Figure and Fantasy in French Painting, exh. cat. (New York: Berry-Hill Galleries, 1999), 62, 63, (repro.).
Claudia Einecke, Final Moments: Peyron, David, and “The Death of Socrates,” exh. cat. (Omaha: Joslyn Art Museum, 2001), 4, 32, 33, (repro.).
Guillaume Kazerouni, L'idée et la ligne: Dessins français du musée de Grenoble XVIe–XVIIIe siècle, with contributions by Barbara Brejon de Lavergnée and Jérôme Delaplanche (Paris: Somogy Éditions d'art, 2011).p>
Barbara Brejon de Lavergne´e, Jerome Delaplanche, and Guillaume Kazerouni. L'idée et la ligne: Dessins français du Musée de Grenoble XVIe - XVIIIe sie`cle (Paris: Somogy e´d. d'art, 2011).
Taylor J. Acosta, European Paintings and Sculpture from Joslyn Art Museum (Omaha: Joslyn Art Museum, 2020), 26, 116–17, (repro.).
