Saint Simeon Receiving the Christ Child from the Virgin Mary: Nunc Dimittis

1829–1856

Medium	black chalk heightened with white chalk on blue-gray paper
Dimensions	Overall: 16 15/16 x 12 15/16 in. (43 x 32.8 cm)
Object Number	1955.1957
Acquisition	Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955
Status	Off View

Image Caption

Théodore Chassériau, Saint Simeon Receiving the Christ Child from the Virgin Mary: Nunc Dimittis, 1829–1856, black chalk heightened with white chalk on blue-gray paper. Clark Art Institute, 1955.1957

Select Bibliography

Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Exhibit Thirty-four: French Drawings of the 19th Century. August 28, 1966. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute.. New Acquisitions II.. Oct. 21-Dec. 5, 1976.. New York: Shepherd Gallery.. Christian Imagery in French 19th-Century Art, 1789-1906. May 20-July 26, 1980. Haverkamp-Begemann, Egbert, Standish D. Lawder, and Charles W. Talbot, Jr. Drawings from the Clark Art Institute: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Robert Sterling Clark Collection of European and American Drawings, Sixteenth Through Nineteenth Centuries, at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown. 2 volumes. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1964. Cass, David B. and Michael M. Floss. Alexandre Gabriel Decamps, 1803-1860. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1984.

Provenance

Collection of Dr. Édouard Mène (sale Paris, Hôtel Drouot, April 25–29 and May 5–9, 1913) or collection Pierre-Jules Mène (sale Paris, Hôtel des commissaires priseurs, February 22–25, 1899); Robert Sterling Clark.