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The Martyrdom of Saint Lawrence
Jean Baptiste de Champaignec. 1660
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
Washington, DC, United States
Details
- Title: The Martyrdom of Saint Lawrence
- Creator: Jean Baptiste de Champaigne
- Date Created: c. 1660
- Physical Dimensions: overall: 81.7 x 68.5 cm (32 3/16 x 26 15/16 in.)
- Provenance: Private collection;[1] (sale, Loiseau, Schmitz, and Digard, Saint-Germain-en-Laye, 22 June 1997); private collection, Switzerland; (Simon C. Dickinson Ltd., London); purchased 3 June 1998 by NGA. [1] In a letter dated 15 June 1997 (recipient not identified, photocopy in NGA curatorial files), Dorival identifies the NGA painting "_Martyr de Saint Laurent_ par Philippe de Champaigne" with a picture recorded in a sequence of 18th and 19th century sale catalogues as the pendant to a lost _Martyrdom of Saint Lawrence_, the pair given to Philippe de Champaigne in the old catalogues (see Bernard Dorival, _Philippe de Champaigne, 1602-1674: La vie, l'oeuvre et le catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre_, 2 vols., Paris, 1976: nos. 787 and 757).
- Rights: CC0
- Medium: oil on canvas
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