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Sébastien Bourdon
(2nd Feb, 1616 - 8th May, 1671)
La Vierge assise, avec l'Enfant sur ses genoux et le petit saint Jean
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Photo (C) RMN-Grand Palais (musée du Louvre) / Michèle Bellot
musée du Louvre
http://www.louvre.fr
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Keywords:
tenderness
figure study
sitting
Madonna and Child
nude (child)
St.John the Baptist (as a child)
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About the artwork
Title:
La Vierge assise, avec l'Enfant sur ses genoux et le petit saint Jean
Periods:
17th century
modern age
Techniques:
black chalk
sanguine
wash drawing
Dimensions:
127 x 92
Inventory number:
INV25018-recto
Location:
musée du Louvre
About the author(s)
Author:
Sébastien Bourdon
Also known as:
Sebastien Bourdon
Born:
2nd Feb, 1616
Dead:
8th May, 1671
Country:
France
See more about this author on Wikipedia:
Sébastien Bourdon
(2 February 1616 – 8 May 1671) was a French painter and engraver. His
chef d'œuvre
is
The Crucifixion of St. Peter
made for the cathedral of Notre Dame. Bourdon was born in Montpellier, France, the son of a Protestant painter on glass. He was apprenticed to a painter in Paris. In spite of his poverty he managed to get to Rome in 1636; there he studied the paintings of Nicolas Poussin, Claude Lorrain and Caravaggio among his eclectic selection of models, until he was forced to…
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