Details
Sébastien Bourdon (Montpellier 1616-1671 Paris)
The Philistines Stricken after Looking into the Ark of the Covenant
oil on canvas
58 x 79 in. (147.5 x 200 cm.)
Provenance
Achille III de Harlay, Comte de Beaumont and Seigneur de Grosbois (1629-1712), Premier Président du Parlement de Paris, Paris.
Le Doux collection, and by descent to M. le Doux; sale, F.C. Joullain fils, Paris, 24 April 1775, lot 43.
Private collection; sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 12 March 1943, lot 15, as 'La peste d'Antioche'.
Private collection, Britain; Christie's, London, 23 July 1982, lot 159.
Literature
A.G. Guillet de Saint-Georges, Mémoires inédits sur la vie et les ouvrages des membres de l'Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture, Paris, 1854, I, p. 95.
C. Ponsonaihe, Sébastien Bourdon, sa vie et son oeuvre, Paris 1886, pp. 286 and 307 (author cites an untraceable 17th Century engraving of Bourdon's Peste d'Azoth by Etienne Baudet).
G.E. Fowle, The Biblical Paintings of Sébastien Bourdon, unpublished PhD thesis, University of Michigan, 1970, I, pp. 101, 104-106; II, pp. 41-4, no. 12, fig. 46.
D. Brême, 'Bourdon Sébastien', in Allgemeines Künstler-Lexikon. Die bildenden Künstler aller Zeiter und Völker, XIII, Munich and Leipzig, 1996, p. 367.
B. Peronnet and B.B. Fredericksen, eds., Répertoire des tableaux vendus en France au XIXe siècle, I (1801-10), part I, Los Angeles, 1998, p. 199.
Exhibited
Montepellier, Le Musée Fabre; Strasbourg, Galerie de L'Ancienne Douane, Sébastien Bourdon. 1616-1671, 7 July 2000-4 February 2001, no. 300.
Engraved
Etienne Baudet, late-17th Century.
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