FreeAbelard and Heloise Surprised by the Abbot Fulbert
Jean Vignaud (French, 1775–1826)
Title
Abelard and Heloise Surprised by the Abbot Fulbert
Artist
Jean Vignaud (French, 1775–1826)
Date
1819
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
47 1/2 × 39 3/4 in. (120.7 × 101 cm)
Classification
Painting
Credit Line
Museum purchase, Collectors' Choice, 1985
Object Number
1985.6
On View
On view
Purchased from Rosenberg & Stiebel by Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska, 1985.
Salon, Paris, 1819, no. 1177.
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.
Holliday T. Day and Hollister Sturges, eds., Joslyn Art Museum: Paintings & Sculpture from the European & American Collections (Omaha: Joslyn Art Museum, 1987), 71, 72–73, (repro.).
Geoffroy Grassin and Bibliothèque Municipale (Troyes), Très sage Héloise: Catalogue d’exposition (Troyes, France: Association Champagne historique, 2001), 82, (repro.).
Héloïse et Abélard: Correspondance, Nouvelle Version des Lettres I–VI, ed. and trans. Roland Oberson (Paris: Age d'homme, 2002), cover, (repro.)
Magali Briat-Philippe, L’invention du passé: Gothique, mon amour, 1802–1830, vol. 1 (Paris: Hazan, 2014), 52.
John Freccero, In Dante’s Wake: Reading from Medieval to Modern in the Augustinian Tradition, eds. Melissa Swain and Danielle Callegari (New York: Fordham University Press, 2015), 46.
Taylor J. Acosta, European Paintings and Sculpture from Joslyn Art Museum (Omaha: Joslyn Art Museum, 2020), 24, 130–31, (repro.).