FRANCOIS-XAVIER FABRE (1766-1837) The Dying Saint Sebastian (1789) Oil on canvas (196 x 147 cm) Musée Fabre, Montpellier To enlarge the image, right-click on it and then "Open in a new tab" Born in Montpellier on 1 April 1766, Fabre was one of the first students to benefit from the education provided by Montpellier's Societe …
Tag: French religious painting
Saint Augustine
PHILIPPE DE CHAMPAIGNE (1602-1674) Saint Augustine (c.1645-50) Oil on canvas (79 x 62 cm) Los Angeles County Museum of Art To enlarge the image, right-click on it, then "Open in a new tab" The text reproduced below is the entry written by the great British art historian Philip Conisbee (1946-2008) for the catalogue of the exhibition …
The Penitent Magdalen
GEORGES DE LA TOUR (1593-1652) The Penitent Magdalen with the Smoking Flame (c.1638-40) Oil on canvas (117 x 92 cm) Los Angeles County Museum of Art To enlarge the picture, right-click on it and "Open in a new tab" Georges de La Tour was the greatest tenebrist painter working in 17th-century France. Indeed since his …
The Virgin and Child
SIMON VOUET (1590-1649) The Madonna Adoring the Christ Child (1623-26) Oil on canvas 118 x 132 cm Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam To enlarge the picture, right-click on it and "Open in a new tab" Simon Vouet is one of the most important French painters of the 19th century. His father Laurent, a painter himself, taught …
Old Masters 