Georges de La Tour

Saint James the Greater

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January 26, 03:17 PM GMT

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3,500,000 - 5,000,000 USD

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Baroque: Masterpieces from the Fisch Davidson Collection

Georges de La Tour

Vic-sur-Seille 1593 - 1652 Lunéville

Saint James the Greater

oil on canvas

canvas: 24¾ by 20 in.; 63 by 50.8 cm. ¹

framed: 31⅞ by 26⅝ in.; 81.0 by 67.6 cm.

Abbot François de Camps (1643-1723), Paris, before 1694;
From whom acquired by Canon Jean-Baptise Nulart (d. 3 July 1694) for the Chapel of Saint John in the choir of Saint Cecilia Cathedral, Albi (as recorded in an account dated 8 March 1698; again recorded in 1795 Revolutionary inventory, where erroneously said to be property of Bandinelli);
Private collector, France;
By whom sold ("Property of a Private European Collector"), New York, Sotheby's, 24 January 2008, lot 80;
Where acquired by the present collectors.

J.P. Cuzin, “La Tour en 2005: dix questions,” in Georges de La Tour, exhibition catalogue, A. Takahashi, J.-P. Cuzin, and D. Salmon (eds.), Tokyo 2005, pp. 205-216 (in Japanese, pp. 23-31), reproduced fig. 21 (in Japanese, fig. 11); pp. 188-189, reproduced in color; p. 176, no. 44;

P. Rosenberg, “Un nouveau chef-d'oeuvre de Georges de La Tour. Le Saint Jérôme récemment réapparu à Madrid,” in Boletín del Museo del Prado 23 no. 41 (2005), pp. 46-59, reproduced fig. 2;

Georges de La Tour. 1593 - 1652, exhibition catalogue, D. Salmon, J.-P. Cuzin, and A. Úbeda (eds.), Madrid 2016, pp. 57, 88-89, cat. no. 4, reproduced in color p. 93;

R. Fohr, Georges de La tour: Le maître des nuits, Paris 2018, pp. 78, 303, cat. no. 6, reproduced in color p. 77, thumbnail p. 303;

J.-P. Cuzin, La Tour, Paris 2021, pp. 52, 62-63, 76, 350-351, cat. no. 6, reproduced in color pp. 63, 351, fig. 52.

Literature on the Albi series

Procèz-verbal de la visite [par l'archevêque Charles le Goux de La Berchère] à l'église métropolitaine et du chapitre d'Alby en 1698 et 1699, inventory of the Albi Cathedral of 8 March 1698;

Mémoire des effets concernant les Arts qui se trouvent dans le district d'Alby, département du Tarn, et qui méritent la plus grande considération, etc., inventory of the Albi Cathedral of 1795 (Archives Nationales, F 17A 1231, dossier 4, pièce 44);

Huyghe, “L'influence de La Tour. Une oeuvre perdue de Georges de La Tour,” in L'Amour de l'Art 9 (1946), pp. 255-258;

F.G. Pariset, Georges de La Tour, Paris 1948, p. 231, reproduced plate 34;

P. Rosenberg and J. Thuillier, Georges de La Tour, exhibition catalogue, Paris 1972, pp. 126-131, under cat. nos. 4-6 and pp. 239-240, under cat. nos. 34-42, reproduced pp. 126, 129-130, 226-227;

J. Thuillier, Tout l'oeuvre peint de Georges de La Tour, Paris 1973, p. 88, nos. 7-19, reproduced;

P. Rosenberg and F. Macé de l'Epinay, Georges de La Tour, Vie et Œuvre, Fribourg 1973, pp. 92-99;

B. Nicolson and C. Wright, Georges de La Tour, London 1974, p. 187, cat. no. 45, reproduced figs. 22, 32;

J. Thuillier, Georges de La Tour, Paris 1992, pp. 46-57, pp. 282-283, reproduced p. 283;

P. Conisbee, Georges de La Tour and his World, exhibition catalogue, Washington, D.C. 1996, pp. 43-49. 263-264, under cat. nos. 6-8;

J.P. Cuzin, “Le Christ et les apôtres” in Georges de La Tour, exhibition catalogue, J.P. Cuzin, P. Rosenberg, and J. Thuillier (eds.), Paris 1997, pp. 84-103, cat. nos. 1-11c, reproduced;

J.C. Boyer, “Les Apôtres de Georges de La Tour, de Paris à Albi,” in Les Apôtres de Georges de La Tour. Réalités et virtualités, exhibition catalogue supplement, Albi 2004, pp. 47-60;

Georges de La Tour. 1593 - 1652, exhibition catalogue, D. Salmon, J.-P. Cuzin, and A. Úbeda (eds.), Madrid 2016, pp. 18-19, 30-31, 40, 55, 57, 63, 69, 88-89, 94-95, 100, 108, 144, cat. nos. 1-4, reproduced in color pp. 90-95;

R. Fohr, Georges de La Tour: Le maître des nuits, Paris 2018, pp. 78, 303, cat. nos. 1-11. reproduced in color pp. 72-77, 79-83;

J.-P. Cuzin, La Tour, Paris 2021, pp. 52-77, 350-351, cat. nos. 2-13, reproduced in color pp. 52-57, 59-61, 63-67.