Details
- Artist Name: School of Fontainebleau (French, 16th century)
- Title: The Birth of Adonis
- Date: mid-16th century
- Medium: Oil on panel
- Dimensions: 38 x 30-3/8 in. (96.5 x 77.2 cm)
- Credit Line: The Norton Simon Foundation
- Accession Number: F.1965.1.026.P
- Copyright: © The Norton Simon Foundation
Object Information
[Allen Loebl, Paris, sold 2 May 1951 to];
[Duveen Bros., New York, stock no. 30143, as Primaticcio, sold 1965 to];
The Norton Simon Foundation.
French Art of the Sixteenth Century, Commemorating the Fort Caroline Quadricentennial
- Jacksonville, Cummer Gallery of Art, 1964-06-27 to 1964-09-30
The School of Fontainebleau: An Exhibition of Paintings, Drawings, Engravings, Etchings and Sculpture 1530-1619
- Fort Worth Art Museum, 1965-09-15 to 1965-10-24
- University of Texas, Art Museum, 1965-11-01 to 1965-12-05
French Art in Painting and Sculpture of the Eighteenth Century
- New York, Duveen Brothers, 1952-10-23 to 1952-11-22
The Expressive Body: Memory, Devotion, Desire (1400-1750)
- Norton Simon Museum, 2021-10-15 to 2022-03-07
Lock, Stock and Barrel: Norton Simon's Purchase of Duveen Brothers Gallery
- Norton Simon Museum, 2014-10-24 to 2015-02-16
- The Burlington Magazine, Pl. II p. 397
- Art News, pl.II p. 397
- Fitzsimmons, James, Art Digest, 1952, pp. 15-16
- Béguin, Sylvie, et al., L'École de Fontainebleau, 1972, p. 73, under no. 70
- Ross, Barbara T., Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University, 1983, p. 41
- Campbell, Sara, Collector Without Walls: Norton Simon and His Hunt for the Best, 2010, cat. D15 p. 442
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