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European Art
Photo credit: Yale University Art Gallery
Artist: Charles de La Fosse, French, 1636–1716
Saint Cecilia
ca. 1700
Oil on paper
sight in frame: 31.115 × 23.495 cm (12 1/4 × 9 1/4in.)
framed: 41.275 × 33.655 × 5.08 cm (16 1/4 × 13 1/4 × 2in.)
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Edward A. Friedman, B.A.1971, and Mr. and Mrs. Gary D. Friedman, B.A.1973
2005.105.1
Status:
Not on view
Culture:
French
Period:
17th–18th century
Classification:
Paintings
Provenance:
[perhaps the St. Cecilia by La Fosse mentioned in inventories of the Vaudreuil collection]; purchased by the donors from Neal Fiertag, Paris, ca. 1999.
Bibliography:
Art for Yale: Collecting for a New Century, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2007), 231, 397, pl. 219.
Note: This electronic record was created from historic documentation that does not necessarily reflect the Yale University Art Gallery’s complete or current knowledge about the object. Review and updating of such records is ongoing.
