Terms and conditions of use
The generosity of the Chevalier Bayard
(Générosité du chevalier Bayard)
(1814)
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Measurements
- 38.1 × 46.0 cm
- Accession Number
- 2011.401
- Department
- International Painting
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Presented by Patrick Matthiesen and The Matthiesen Gallery, London to commemorate the 150th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Victoria, 2011
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of Digitisation Champion Ms Carol Grigor through Metal Manufactures Limited - Gallery location
- 19th Century European Paintings Gallery
Level 2, NGV International - Subjects (general)
- Biographical History and Legend Human Figures
- Subjects (specific)
- charity (philosophical concept) gifts (object genre) knights (landholders) men (male humans) women (female humans)
- Provenance
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Exhibited Salon, Paris, 1814, no. 370, lent by the artist's family in memory of the artist; private collection, France, before 1996; private collection, New York, before 1996; with The Matthiesen Gallery & Stair Sainty Matthiesen (dealer), London, by 1996 until 2011; presented by Patrick Matthiesen and The Matthiesen Gallery, to the NGV, 2011.
Exhibited: Salon, Paris, 1814, no. 370, lent by the artist’s family in memory of the artist; Romance and Chivalry: History and Literature reflected in nineteenth-century French Painting, The Matthiesen Gallery & Stair Sainty Matthiesen Inc. (touring), 1996–97, no. 21; Napoleon and his age, Nassau County Museum of Art, New York, 28 January– 29 April 2001