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Artist: Charles de La Fosse, French, 1636–1716

Saint Cecilia

ca. 1700

Oil on paper

sight in frame: 31.115 x 23.495 cm (12 1/4 x 9 1/4in.) framed: 41.275 x 33.655 x 5.08 cm (16 1/4 x 13 1/4 x 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
Culture: 
French
Period: 
17th–18th century
Classification: 
Paintings
Status: 
Not on view
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.

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