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The Baptism of Clovis
Master of Saint Gilesc. 1500
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
Washington, DC, United States
Details
- Title: The Baptism of Clovis
- Creator: Master of Saint Giles
- Date Created: c. 1500
- Physical Dimensions: painted surface: 61.5 x 45.5 cm (24 3/16 x 17 15/16 in.) overall (panel): 63.3 x 46.7 cm (24 15/16 x 18 3/8 in.) framed: 82.07 × 66.36 × 9.21 cm (32 5/16 × 26 1/8 × 3 5/8 in.)
- Provenance: Chevalier Alexandre de Lestang-Parade, Aix-en-Provenance, by 1823.[1] Count Melchoir de Lestang-Parade, Aix-en-Provence; (sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 19-20 May 1882, nos. 105, 106, as anonymous fifteenth century). Baron Etienne Martin de Beurnonville [d. 1881], Paris; (sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 21-22 May 1883, nos. 43, 44, as Burgundian School, fifteenth century). M. Watel, Paris, 1883.[2] (Paris art market, by 1937.)[3] (Wildenstein and Co., Paris and New York, 1938-1946;) purchased 1946 by Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York;[4] gift 1952 by exchange to NGA. [1] [Jean-Baptiste-François Porte], _Aix ancien et moderne, ou Description des Édifices sacres et profanes, Établissements, Monumens[sic] antiques, du moyen âge et modernes, Bibliotèques, Cabinets, Promenades d'Aix, etc., etc...._ (Aix-en-Provence, 1823), 147. [2] According to Alfred de Champeaux, "Deux vues de la Cité de Paris au XVe siècle," _La Chronique des Arts et de la Curiosité_, no. 23 (1883), 187. [3] Max J. Friedländer, "Le Maître de Saint-Gilles," _Gazette des Beaux-Arts_, 6e per. 17 (1937), 223. [4] See The Kress Collection Digital Archive, https://kress.nga.gov/Detail/objects/2088.
- Rights: CC0
- Medium: oil on panel
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