Saint Genevieve. Engraving by E. Fessard, 1757, after C.J. Natoire.

  • Natoire, Charles Joseph, 1700-1777.
Date:
[1757?]
Reference:
8607i
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Description

She is shown as a statue in a niche, reading a book and holding a taper, and accompanied by a lamb

Publication/Creation

A Paris (rue St Thomas du Louvre) : chez l'auteur graveur du Roy et de sa Bibliothèque A. P. D. R, [1757?]

Physical description

1 print : engraving, with etching

Lettering

S.te Geneviève des Ardents. Tableau de la Chapelle de Ste Geneviève des Ardents du côté droit latéral. C. Natoire pinx. St. Fessard sculp. 1757.

References note

Edmond Pognon and Yves Bruand, Inventaire du fonds français, graveurs du XVIIIe siècle, Bibliothèque nationale, Département des estampes, tome IX, Paris 1962, p. 66, no. 330
Madeleine de Terris, 'L'Épiphanie en estampes', Ad vivum: L'estampe et le dessin anciens à la BnF, 6 January 2012, https://estampe.hypotheses.org/tag/adoration-des-mages (accessed August 2018)
Rena M. Hoisington, 'Étienne Fessard's prints of the chapel of the Hôpital des enfants trouvés in Paris', Print quarterly, 2019, XXXVI, no. 4, pp. 404-425

Reference

Wellcome Collection 8607i

Reproduction note

After: one of the wall paintings by Natoire in the chapel of the new building of the Hôpital des enfans-trouvés, Paris. The institution had been founded by Saint Vincent de Paul in 1638. The new building was constructed around 1747 on the site of the old church of Sainte-Geneviève-des-Ardents, near Notre Dame. The north and south walls each had four bays of paintings in the lower register, and the north wall held two paintings of the Sisters of Saint Vincent de Paul with orphans in the upper register. The east wall held three paintings in the lower register and a large painting of God in glory with angels in the upper register.Two paintings, of Saint Vincent de Paul and of Sainte-Geneviève-des-Ardents (shown in the present print), in niches were among the paintings on the north and south walls. The building and the paintings were destroyed in 1866, when a new building for the Paris Hôtel Dieu was constructed on the site

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