id:			165425
accession number:	2007.275
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/2007.275
updated:		2023-08-24 00:19:05.845000

Aglaida and Boniface, c. 1857. Alexandre Cabanel (French, 1823–1889). Oil on canvas; unframed: 62.2 x 68 cm (24 1/2 x 26 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of Elizabeth Ludwig Fennell 2007.275

title:				Aglaida and Boniface
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creation date:			c. 1857
creation date earliest:		1852
creation date latest:		1862
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creditline:			Bequest of Elizabeth Ludwig Fennell
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culture:	France, 19th century
technique:	oil on canvas
department:	Modern European Painting and Sculpture
collection:	Mod Euro - Painting 1800-1960
type:		Painting
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CREATORS

* Alexandre Cabanel (French, 1823–1889)  - artist

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measurements: Unframed: 62.2 x 68 cm (24 1/2 x 26 3/4 in.)
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	inscription:	Signed lower right:  "Alex Cabanel" 
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Rétrospective Alexandre Cabanel
	opening date:   2010-07-10T00:00:00
	<i>Rétrospective Alexandre Cabanel</i>. Musée Fabre, Montpellier, France (organizer) (July 10, 2010-January 1, 2011); Wallraf-Richartz Museum, 50667 Cologne, Germany (February 4-May 15, 2011).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* Musée Fabre, Montpellier, France (7/10/2010 - 12/5/2010) and Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Cologne, Germany (2/4/2011 - 5/15/2011):  "Rétrospective Alexandre Cabanel", ex. cat. no. 26, p. 53.

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PROVENANCE

	Elizabeth Ludwig Fennell [1917–2007], Cleveland, OH, bequested to the Cleveland Museum of Art
	date: ?–2007
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 2007–
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fun fact:
Alexandre Cabanel was a leader of the academic artists who rejected the paintings of Édouard Manet and other "realists" from the Salon of 1863, producing a vast outcry that forced the government to organize the alternative Salon des Refusés.

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wall description:
The French painter Alexandre Cabanel was a favorite of Emperor Napoleon III and a leader of the academic style that emphasized precise drawing and smoothly modeled forms. This painting depicts the wealthy Roman woman Aglaida and her concubine slave Boniface, here living as pagan sinners in Rome around 290 CE. On a trip to Tarsus on the Anatolian coast, Boniface converted to Christianity and was tortured and beheaded. Aglaida also converted to Christianity, gave all her possessions to the poor, and built a church for Boniface's relics.
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