Jeroboam Sacrificing to Idols

Jeroboam Sacrificing to Idols, 1752, Académie des Beaux-Arts

Jeroboam Sacrificing to Idols (French: Jéroboam sacrifiant aux idoles) is a history painting by the French painter Jean-Honoré Fragonard, in oil on canvas.[1] It won him the highly prestigious Prix de Rome for painting on 26 August 1752, shortly after he turned 20 years old; this "precocious triumph" was even more remarkable as he had not received the usual training at the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture.[2] The painted surface measures 111.5 by 143.5 centimetres (43.9 in × 56.5 in). It was retained by the Académie until that institution was abolished in the French Revolution and is now part of the collection of the successor Académie des Beaux-Arts.[3]

  1. ^ There are variant titles: Jeroboam Sacrificing to the Idols, Jeroboam Offering Sacrifice for the Idol etc.
  2. ^ Rosenberg, 52
  3. ^ Rosenberg, 52