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| Reception of the Grand Condé at Versailles | |
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| French: Réception du Grand Condé à Versailles, Réception du Grand Condé par Louis XIV | |
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| Artist | Jean-Léon Gérôme |
| Year | 1878 |
| Catalogue | RF 2004 15 |
| Medium | Oil painting |
| Movement | Academic art |
| Subject | Louis, Grand Condé being received by Louis XIV at the Palace of Versailles |
| Dimensions | 96.5 cm × 139.7 cm (38.0 in × 55.0 in) |
| Location | Musée d'Orsay, Paris |
Reception of the Grand Condé at Versailles or Réception du Grand Condé à Versailles in French is a painting by Jean-Léon Gérôme in 1878. It represents the reception of Louis II de Bourbon-Condé by Louis XIV, at the Palace of Versailles, at the foot of the Escalier des Ambassadeurs [fr], in 1674. The painting was acquired in 2004 by the Musée d'Orsay.
Analysis
editFollowing the mixed success of another of his paintings, Siècle d'Auguste : naissance de N. S. Jésus Christ (Exposition Universelle of 1855), Gérôme chose to focus on “small” history. In this painting he highlighted the comedy of power, through the belated allegiance of the prince to his king. The taste for reconstruction and the painter's precision are found in the representation of the rich court costumes, and in the reproduction of the monumental Escalier des Ambassadeurs de Versailles, destroyed more than a century earlier.[1]
History
editGérôme's painting was acquired in 2004 by the Musée d'Orsay.[2]
In 2014, the painting was loaned to the Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon as part of the exhibition L'invention du Passé. Histoires de cœur et d'épée 1802-1850 [fr].
References
edit- ^ Denoël, Charlotte (2011). "L'Art académique et la peinture d'histoire". L'Histoire par l'image (published February 2011).
- ^ "Fiche œuvre n°133186, Jean-Léon Gérôme, Réception du Grand Condé par Louis XIV (Versailles, 1674)". Musée d'Orsay.
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Category:Collections of the Musée d'Orsay
Category:Palace of Versailles
Category:1878 paintings
Category:Paintings by Jean-Léon Gérôme
Category:Louis XIV