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Abelard 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

Provenance

With Rosenberg & Stiebel, New York, by September 23, 1985;
Purchased from Rosenberg & Stiebel by Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska, 1985.

Exhibition History

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.

Published References

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.).