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Venus Healing Aeneas
Provenance
Hippolyte Lebas (died 1867), Paris, by 1867; sold, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, December 2–4, 1867, lot 93, as Sujet mythologique, to private collection, France. Sold, small regional auction, France, artist listed as anonymous, to private collection, by 2010; sold, Artcurial auction at Hôtel Drouot, Paris, February 19, 2010, lot 199, as Venus protégeant le corps d’Hector de la corruption, to Caylus Anticuaios, Madrid; sold to Art Institute of Chicago, 2015.
Inscriptions
Signed with the monogram: JBL
Publications
Hôtel Drouot, Paris, Catalogue des Oeuvres de Feu Hippolyte Le Bas et Des Tableaux & Dessins Anciens & Modernes Gravures, Lithographies, Bronzes, Platres, etc., sales cat. (Hôtel Drouot, December 2–4, 1867), n.pag., lot 92. Artcurial Auction at Hôtel Drouot, Paris, Tableaux et Dessins Anciens et du XIXe Siècle, sales cat. (Hôtel Drouot, February 19, 2010), p. 50, lot 199.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Merry Joseph Blondel (French, 1781–1853)
- Date
- c. 1820
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 27 × 21.5 cm (10 5/8 × 8 1/2 in.); Framed: 39.4 × 33.7 × 7 cm (15 1/2 × 13 1/4 × 2 3/4 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- painting
- Style
- 19th century
- Place
- France
- Department
- Painting and Sculpture of Europe
- Credit line
- Purchased with funds provided by Pamela and Roger Hull through the Old Masters Society
- Accession no.
- 2015.412
More by Merry Joseph Blondel in museum collections
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Open-access museum record · AT-00001719
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