Saint Gregory Pope receiving the homage of the Cardinals - after Carle Vanloo

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."