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The Deluge

Artist Benjamin West (American ; 1738-1820)
Date1790
Mediumoil on canvas
Dimensionsframe: 25 3/8 x 35 1/16 in. (64.4 x 89 cm)
image: 19 1/8 x 28 3/4 in. (48.5 x 73 cm)
Classification(s)
  • PAINTING
Credit LineGift of Dr. Robert Erwin Jones, Class of 1952
Terms
  • Biblical stories
  • flood
  • landscape
  • figures
  • rainbow
  • dove
  • Noah
  • arc
Object number84.33.3
Collections
Catalogue raisonnéVon Erffa and Staley #235
Inscribedverso l.c.: [fragment of letter adhered to panel which is signed by Benj. West and dated July 16, 1805; mentions his "picture of the Deluge"]; verso c.: [exhibition label, Philadelphia Museum 1986]
On View
Not on view
ProvenanceThe artist to N.W. Ridley Colborne, 1805; to Christie's, London, April 1973, lot 300; to Pearson, 1973; to Sabin Galleries, London, 1973; to Dr. Robert Erwin Jones (Class of 1952); to present collection 1984
Exhibitions