Saint Gregory distributes his goods to the poor - Dean after Carle Vanloo
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Description
Booklet from the 1765 Salon:
"By the late M. Carle Vanloo, premier Peintre du Roi, Chevalier de son Ordre, Directeur de l'Académie Royale de Peinture & de Sculpture, Directeur de l'Ecole Royale des Elèves protégés.
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4. Sept Esquisses pour la Chapelle de saint Grégoire, aux Invalides."
Mercure de France, October 1765, p. 149:
"Less observed by the crowd perhaps, but even more precious to amateurs, were seven small paintings or sketches, of the life of Saint Gregoire, composed to be executed in large, in a Chapel of the Invalides. One can admire in them all that is required in the different parts of painting: the order, the choice & arrangement of the groups, the harmony of the lights, the harmonious brilliance of the coloring, &c. & in all these paintings much strength, true & happy expressions: the one on the ceiling above all, which represents the apotheosis of the Saint, is of truly sublime energy."
On Romanet's counterpart engraving;
"La premiere estampe nous représente S. Gregoire, qui distribue son bien aux pauvres. Le Saint est débout & élevé sur la rampe d'un péristile. Carle Vanloo has spread a very sensitive interest over the most advanced part of this scene. We see an infigent family demonstrating its need with touching expressions. The engraving is by M. Romanet, who has given great harmony to the varied tones of his supple & mellow burin." (L'Avant-Coureur, Monday May 6, 1771, Arts. Gravure, p. 274)
2. The original sketch exhibited at the 1765 Salon is lost.
3. The sketch was the first in a series of seven intended for the decoration of the chapel of Saint Gregory at Les Invalides.
Preparatory drawings: Harvard Art Museum, 1955.18. Metropolitan Museum, 1977.416e.
Technical Data
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