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Jules Breton - Kergoat's forgiveness
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Yan' Dargent - The washerwomen of the night
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Louis Eugène Boudin - View of the port of Quimper
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Émile Renouf - The widow of the île de Sein
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Peter Paul Rubens - The martyrdom of Saint Lucia
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Nicolò dell'Abate  - The sleep of Venus
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Bartolo di Fredi - St. Paul
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François Boucher - The abduction of Proserpina
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Hubert Robert - Night party in the gardens of the Petit Trianon
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Adélaïde Labille-Guiard  - Portrait of a woman
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Jean Baptiste Camille Corot - View of Pierrefonds Castle
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Évariste-Vital Luminais - The escape of King Gradlon
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Théodore Chassériau - Portrait of a woman of Cabarrus
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Wilhelm List - The miracle of the roses
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Paul Gauguin - Pilgrimage saddlebag
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Maxime Maufra - View of the port of Pont-Aven
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Maurice Denis - Regatta in Perros-Guirec
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Paul Sérusier - The spell (The sacred grove)
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Félix Vallotton - Landscape with Trees (or Last Rays)
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Auguste Rodin - The Shadow
Jules Breton - Kergoat's forgiveness
Yan' Dargent - The washerwomen of the night
Louis Eugène Boudin - View of the port of Quimper
Émile Renouf - The widow of the île de Sein
Peter Paul Rubens - The martyrdom of Saint Lucia
Nicolò dell'Abate  - The sleep of Venus
Bartolo di Fredi - St. Paul
François Boucher - The abduction of Proserpina
Hubert Robert - Night party in the gardens of the Petit Trianon
Adélaïde Labille-Guiard  - Portrait of a woman
Jean Baptiste Camille Corot - View of Pierrefonds Castle
Évariste-Vital Luminais - The escape of King Gradlon
Théodore Chassériau - Portrait of a woman of Cabarrus
Wilhelm List - The miracle of the roses
Paul Gauguin - Pilgrimage saddlebag
Maxime Maufra - View of the port of Pont-Aven
Maurice Denis - Regatta in Perros-Guirec
Paul Sérusier - The spell (The sacred grove)
Félix Vallotton - Landscape with Trees (or Last Rays)
Auguste Rodin - The Shadow

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Description

The stake is raging. Saint Lucia of Syracuse is martyred under the reign of the Roman emperor Diocletian for his conversion to Christianity, his resistance irritates: a witness jumps on the pole and cuts his throat.

The bodies twist, turn over in all directions; the smoke rises in dense spirals, taking with it the vaporous fabric of the dress. The violence of the scene explodes in the effects of glimpses and perspectives, in the virtuosity and in the chromatic contrasts.

Born from the Counter-Reformation, which reaffirmed the importance of the cult of saints, Baroque art showed its splendor in religious circles. In 1621 Rubens made the ceiling for the Jesuit church in Antwerp, which was largely lost in a fire in 1718. The preparatory sketches allow us to imagine it today.

This work on wood was born from an important commission received by Rubens in 1620, in which the painter undertook to create in less than a year a series of paintings to adorn the ceiling of this church, built starting in 1615. The contract he specifies that he had to "draw the drawings of the 39 paintings in small format with his own hand, then leaving the final execution to Van Dyck and some other students" from his studio. This model, a sketch painted in oil, assumes all its value: by the hand of the master himself, he illustrates his genius and testifies to what his contemporaries called "the agility and frenzy of his brush".


© Musée des beaux-arts de Quimper.


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