Guy François

Concini collection.

The relining is old but stable. The painting has been restored fairly recently. There is a large patch of restoration upper centre, a small restoration below the chin and some more on the virgen's left hand. On the saint's shoulder there is a small area of retouching and in the upper right background a cluster of further retouchings. There is some restored damage along the lower margin. Some of the blues are repainted.
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After a short sojourn in Italy, Guy François settled in Puy, his town of birth, before 1614 and the workshop he set up there was renowned throughout the Languedoc and Auvergne. The composition of the present work is similar to that of The Madonna and Child with Saint Bruno.¹  The loose structure of these works is similar to that of The Last Supper in Saint-Bonnet-le-Château, Ancienne Collégiale, which is signed by Guy François and dated 1630, and this would suggest a date in the 1630s for the present work.

1. See Le Temps du Caravagisme, la peinture de Toulouse et du Languedoc de 1590 à 1650, exhibition catalogue, Toulouse, Musée Paul Dupuy, December 2001 - March 2002, p. 159, reproduced plate 7.