Focus on The Death of Hyacinthos and analyze the History.
The Death of Hyacinthos was exhibited at the Paris Salon of 1801. It was most likely exhibited again at the Paris Salon of 1814, piece number 155, under the title "Hyacinthos wounded". Later, it was purchased by baron Horace Demarçay (1813–1866), and was donated to the museum at Poitiers by his widow in 1899. Since then, it has been exhibited in several exhibitions:1974, as part of the exhibition "From David to Delacroix, French painting from 1774 to 1830", Paris-Detroit-New York, number 16, catalogue entry by Robert Rosenblum, pages 340–341;
1975, "Search for Innocence", University of Maryland Art Gallery;
1989, "The Death of Bara", Avignon, Calvet Museum;
1997, "Goodbye to Berlin", Berlin, Schwules Museum;
2002, "The Birth of Feeling, the Foundations of Romanticism", Paris, Cité de la musique, number 38, catalogue entry by Philippe Bata, 3 April to 30 June 2002;
2006, "American Artists in the Louvre", Paris, Musée du Louvre, 14 June – 18 September 2006.
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