The Punishment of Korah

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JEAN-BAPTISTE DESHAYS (ROUEN 1729-1765 PARIS)
The Punishment of Korah
signed ‘Deshays’ (lower right) and inscribed ‘Coré, Dathan et Abiron/ foudroyé par Moyse' and 'par Deshayes’ (verso)
pen and black ink, brown and gray wash, heightened with white
21 x 17 in. (53.5 x 43.1 cm)

来源

with Colnaghi, London (Old Master Drawings, 1985, no. 42, ill.)
with Mark Brady, New York (Old Master Drawings, 1999, no.18, ill.)

出版

A. Bancel, Jean-Baptiste Deshays 1729-1765, Paris, 2008, no. D.110, ill.
J.-F. Méjanès in Mastery and Elegance. Two Century of French Drawings from the Collection of Jeffrey E. Horvitz, exhib. cat., Cambridge, Havard University Art Museums, and elsewhere, 1998-2000, p. 280, fig. 2.

展览

Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Splendor and Elegance. European Decorative Arts and Drawings from the Horace Wood Brock Collection, 2009, no. 131, ill. (essay by C.S. Ackley).

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In this typically pictorial sketch, Deshays, an artist from Rouen and a student of Collin de Vermont and Jean Restout, probably depicts an episode from the Old Testament, when Korah and the Korahites, following the curse of Moses, were swallowed up by the earth (Numbers 16: 31-35). The pronounced chiaroscuro effects, obtained with white bodycolor, is typical of the artist’s manner. A similar technique can be found in the sketch depicting the Resurrection of Lazarus in the Musée du Louvre, Paris (inv. 26200; see Bancel, op. cit., no. D. 107, ill.), and in Tobit burying the dead in the Jeffrey Horvitz Collection (inv. D-F-79/1.1993.43; see Méjanès, op. cit., no. 84, ill.). According to André Bancel, these drawings were produced towards the end of the artist’s career, around 1763-1764.

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