The Martyrdom of Saint Symphorien
1858
Artists
Dimensions
47.9 × 40.5 cm (18 7/8 × 15 15/16 in.)
Provenance
Unidentified sale, Paris, 1860; Galerie Francis Petit, Paris; Isaac Pereire, Paris, by 1864; Galerie [Emile and Isaac] Pereire sale, Paris, March 6-9, 1872, no. 27 (Fr 9,100); a "French Collector"; his sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, March 31, 1914, no. 14 (fr 4,010); (?) Schoeller; Scott and Fowles, New York, acquired through Martin Birnbaum by Grenville L. Winthrop, October 15, 1920 ($7,500); his bequest to the Fogg Art Museum, 1943.
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