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- Philippe Bertrand (1663 - 1724)
- Allegory Commemorating the Accomplishment of the Vow of Louis XIII
- France
- 1714
- S176
- East Galleries I
- Bookmarkable URLIn 1714, the French Academy offered a poetry prize on the subject of the vow made by Louis XIII in 1638 to redecorate the choir of Notre-Dame if a son were born to him (as indeed happened that year). The winner of the prize was the now forgotten abbé du Jarry, while the runner-up was the young Voltaire, who subsequently ridiculed du Jarry’s work. This sculpture was the prize. It comprises allegorical figures of Religion (left), Piety (right) and Fame (above) with an angel (below). Fame trumpets the achievement, while the other figures hold medals bearing busts of Louis XIII and Louis XIV and images relating to the vow and to the Academy itself.
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- Ferdinand Bol (1616 - 1680)
- The Toper
- Netherlands
- c. 1650–1
- P74
- East Galleries I
- Bookmarkable URLFerdinand Bol joined Rembrandt’s workshop in Amsterdam in 1637, and probably remained there until he set up as an independent painter around 1642. The Toper (a drinker or drunkard) is shown in the costume of an early sixteenth-century knight wearing a gold medallion of Saint George. In the nineteenth century the picture was thought to be by another follower of Rembrandt, Jan Victors, and to depict the imprisoned Arnold, Duke of Guelders (1423–1473). The intensity of the facial characterisation has led some to speculate that the picture is a self-portrait, although the picture does not resemble Bol’s known Self-Portrait (1653; private collection). The Toper is in fact a typical character-piece, or tronie, in the Rembrandt manner and may be compared with other half-length figures leaning from windows by Rembrandt and Bol. Bol used this type of pose for an elaborate series between 1644 and 1653, and the present picture is generally thought to date from this period, c. 1650–1.
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- Candlestick
- Corneille van Clève (1646–1732)
- France
- About 1700
- F28
- East Galleries I
- Bookmarkable URLThis candlestick and its pair (F29) bear some resemblance to a model of candlestick designed by Van Clève and executed in the early 18th century in silver gilt by the goldsmith Nicolas de Launay. They share the same model of candleholder and general idea of a twisted figure seated on a vase holding a candle (see other candlesticks in the Wallace Collection, F30–31). The goldsmith Claude I Ballin also owned models for a pair of candlesticks depicting a seated man and woman holding a horn of plenty that supported a candleholder. The models are also reminiscent, however, of February and May in the group of twelve full-scale seated figures of the Months, bearing fluted horns of plenty and single candle branches, carried out to the designs of Le Brun in the 1670s for the 'salle octagone' of the Appartement des Bains at Versailles. From the large number of component parts – each candlestick is made up of seven separate casings, brazed together – and the mercury gilding it is likely that these are early 18th-century castings.
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- Candlestick
- Corneille van Clève (1646–1732)
- France
- About 1700
- F29
- East Galleries I
- Bookmarkable URLThis candlestick and its pair (F28) bear some resemblance to a model of candlestick designed by Corneille Van Clève (1646-1732) and executed in the early eighteenth century in silver gilt by the goldsmith Nicolas de Launay (died 1727). They share the same model of candleholder, and general idea of a twisted figure seated on a vase holding a candle (see other candlesticks in the Wallace Collection, F30-31). The goldsmith Claude I Ballin (c.1615-1678) also owned models for a pair of candlesticks depicting a seated man and woman holding a horn of plenty that supported a candleholder. The models are also reminiscent, however, of February and May in the group of twelve full-scale seated figures of the Months bearing fluted horns of plenty and single candle branches, carried out to the designs of Le Brun in the 1670s for the 'salle octagone' of the Appartement des Bains at Versailles. From the large number of component parts - each candlestick is made up of seven separate casings, brazed together - and the mercury gilding it is likely that these are early eighteenth-century castings.
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- Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich (1712 - 1774)
- The Circumcision
- Germany
- c. 1739 - 1774
- P153
- East Galleries I
- Bookmarkable URLThe Dresden painter Dietrich was known for his pastiches of Rembrandt and other painters of the seventeeth and eighteenth centuries. When he was a week old, the infant Christ was taken to the Temple, circumcised and given the name Jesus (Luke II, 21). Mosaic Law required the operation as a token of the Covenant. Here, Mary and Joseph are seen kneeling on the left, while the operation is performed on a platform in the centre. The empty chair on the right is the Chair of Elijah, on which the child would have been placed immediately before the ceremony, and the flame used to heat the knife can be seen dimly in the right background. Dietrich painted several synagogue scenes, including two versions of the Presentation in the Temple dated 1739 and 1740 (Dresden, Gemäldegalerie).
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- Gerrit Dou (1613 - 1675)
- A Hermit
- Netherlands
- c. 1661
- P170
- East Galleries I
- Bookmarkable URLThe son of a glass engraver, Dou was first apprenticed to his father. In 1628, he entered the studio of Rembrandt, where he remained until Rembrandt’s departure for Amsterdam in 1631. He then became an independent master and later, a founder of the Guild of St. Luke. He became one of the highest paid of all Dutch artists, owning four houses at the time of his death in 1675.
In this picture, which once had a painted case inscribed 1661, the probable date of the painting, a hermit in monkish garb is shown seated in a vaulted interior surrounded by vanitas symbols, reminders of the transience of worldly possessions and the inevitability of death, of which the skull is the most obvious, though the hourglass and candle also recall the brevity and fragility of human life. The hermit seeks spiritual solace in the everlasting truths of the Bible open before him.