Chloe

1806

on display

Hans Jakob Oeri1782 Kyburg – 1868 Zürich

In Salomon Gessner's idyll 'Chloe', Chloe, inflamed with love for Lycas, laments to the nymphs how she crowned the beautiful shepherd and his flute in her sleep in order to catch the laughing gaze of the awakening man (Salomon Gessner: Idyllen, Zurich 1756, pp. 73-76).
Created during Oeri's studies in Louis David's studio in Paris.In: Kunsthaus Zürich. Gesamtkatalog der Gemälde und Skulpturen, Zürcher Kunstgesellschaft (ed.), edited by Christian Klemm, Franziska Lentzsch, Gian Casper Bott et al., Ostfildern, Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2007.

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

image: 160 x 135 cm

Inventory number

1945/0009

Credit line

Kunsthaus Zürich, Donated by Lili Usteri, 1945

Signature

Inscriptions

Accession year

1945

Provenance

Hans Jakob Oeri (*1782 Kyburg, +1868 Zürich) (Künstler/-in)
Verbleib unbekannt
o.D. – 1945, Lili Usteri (Sammler/-in)
ab 1945, Zürcher Kunstgesellschaft | Kunsthaus Zürich (Museum), Zürich, GeschenkSitzungsprotokoll der Sammlungskommission Archiv 10.30.10.41-42, 27.09.1945 II.a.

Provenance category

no indications of being looted art

About the provenance

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Literature (general)

- Kunsthaus Zürich. Gesamtkatalog der Gemälde und Skulpturen, hrsg. von Zürcher Kunstgesellschaft et al., Sammlungskatalog, Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz, 2007, S. 155.

Object type

painting

Classification

C 1[1] painting 19th century CHE

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