Architectural Landscape with Belisarius Receiving Alms
1760
oil
canvas
From the collection of Art Institute of Chicago
1760
oil
canvas
From the collection of Art Institute of Chicago
Dominant colour
Architectural Landscape with Belisarius Receiving Alms is a 1760 oil by French School, a Rococo painting work, held at Art Institute of Chicago.
A man in a red cloak kneels before a small group. One woman drops coins into his hand. A soldier in armor stands nearby. The scene happens under a grand archway. This painting copies a famous Roman story. Belisarius was a general who lost his title and got help from a stranger. The artist adds a twist: the soldier’s face looks like he’s hiding a secret. Look for another scene with a kneeling man at the Art Institute of Chicago.
J. Leger & Son, London, by 1930, as by Pannini [according to mount of photo in the Witt archive, London]. Vicars Brothers’ Galleries, London, by 1948, as by Pannini [according to mount of photo in the Witt archive, London]. W. Russell Button Galleries, Chicago, by 1951 as by Pannini [see advertisement in Antiques 1951]. Agnes W. Stern (died 1967), Chicago; bequeathed to the Art Institute, 1967.
Antiques 60, 4 (October 1951), p. 276 The Art Institute of Chicago Annual Report 1967-1968 (Chicago, 1968), p. 20. Susan Wise and Malcolm Warner, French and British Paintings from 1600 to 1800 in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Collection (Chicago, 1996), pp. 66, 67 (ill.).
Read the full account in the museum source.
This is a small group of portraits and fancy scenes made in France around the 1700s.
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