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Le fabuleux destin des tableaux des abbés Desjardins : peintures des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles des musées et églises du Québec

Title: Le fabuleux destin des tableaux des abbés Desjardins : peintures des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles des musées et églises du Québec / sous la direction de Guillaume Kazerouni et Daniel Drouin ; avec les contiributions de Mario Béland [and 24 others].
Publication: Gand : Snoeck, 2017.

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311 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 28 cm

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This exhibition in 2017 highlights the bicentennial of the arrival in Canada of some 200 paintings initially done by renowned artists for churches in Paris in the 17th and 18th centuries. These paintings, confiscated during the French Revolution and reunited by clergyman Philippe-Jean-Louis Desjardins, were shipped to Québec City to be sold to the rapidly growing parishes and religious congregations at the time. Fairly unfamiliar in France, this important body of religious paintings was researched recently. The history of the paintings is marked by two major periods<U+2014>their use in France, and their 19th century use and impact in the Province of Québec. First, thanks to recent discoveries in France resulting in new attributions, more is known about the background for their creation. Several big names in French painting were involved, artists such as Claude Vignon, Simon and Aubin Vouet, Frère Luc, Charles-Michel-Ange Challes, Jean-Baptiste Corneille, Daniel Hallé, Pierre Puget, Michel Dorigny, Louis Boulogne le jeune, Joseph Christophe, Pierre Dulin, Samuel Massé, Jean-Jacques Lagrenée, François-Guillaume Ménageot and Matthias Stomer, several of whom were French Court painters. Philippe-Jean-Louis Desjardins, through his brother Louis-Joseph, chaplain to the Augustines de l<U+2019>Hôtel-Dieu de Québec, was very aware of the situation of Québec churches. The clergy and religious communities were booming and did not have sufficient art of devotional calibre. In 1817 and 1820, nearly 200 paintings made the voyage to Québec. They would go on to be reframed and sold on site before being placed in various churches and chapels. Alongside this, a new cohort of Canadian artists such as Jean-Baptiste Roy-Audy, Joseph Légaré, Antoine Plamondon and Théophile Hamel would get their training by restoring French works and copying them at the request of sponsors, thereby making up for the shortage of painters in the British colony. This period saw the birth of Canadian painting, but also the creation of the first art collections in Québec and the appearance of the first museum. -- [https://www.mnbaq.org/en/exhibition/the-fabulous-destiny-of-the-paintings-of-the-abbes-desjardins-1247].

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-311).

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9789461614162
9461614160
9789461614490
9461614497

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on1012846467
1012846467
SCSB-8951482

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Columbia University Libraries