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Creator
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Nicolas Bertin (1668-1736)
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Title
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Christ Driving the Money Changers from the Temple/
The Raising of Lazarus
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Date
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c. 1702
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Description
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25 ½ x 36 in. (c. 64.7 x 91.4 cm.)
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Provenance
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Possibly Anonymous (sale, London, Christie’s, 25-26 February 1788, lot 97, sold for 4.4 to Parsons). Marie Anne Léonie Germain Dunoyer de Noirmont (de Castelbajac), (1877-1949), Baroness, Paris, Gers, and St. Germaine-en-Laye, before February 1953. [F. Kleinberger Galleries, Paris (as Zick), sold February 1953 to]; [Duveen Brothers, New York, as Januarius Zick, and later as Jean-Baptiste Jouvenet, sold September 1962 to]; Arthur William Sidney Herrington (1891-1970) and Nell C. Herrington (1891-1966), Indianapolis, Indiana, by inheritance to their son; Arthur Clarke Herrington (1931-2018), Maryland, bequest 2018 to; Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland.[1]
[1] Refer to the curatorial/object file.
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Auction Catalogues
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Possibly 1788 – London, Christie’s, Catalogue of a valuable collection of Italian, French, Flemish, and Dutch pictures, the property of the late Alexander Stuart, Esq; deceased; brought from his seat at Dunearne, in Scotland, consisting of an assemblage of the works of the most esteemed artists... 25-26 February 1788, lot 97, ‘Jevonet’, The raising of Lazarus, sold to Parsons, 4.4 £ [Possibly owned by Stuart, but there were other sellers in this sale. The seller of this lot has been cut off in the margin of the Christie’s London copy of the catalogue.] Frick copy: Copy of Christie’s London catalogue; sellers’ names cut off in the left margin; “4.4” “Parsons.”
Schnapper, Antoine. “Nouvelles acquisitions des musées de province. Musée de Saint-Étienne. A propos d’un tableau de N. Bertin.” La Revue du Louvre et des Musées de France (1972, nos. 4-5): 357, note 4.
Lefrançois, Thierry. Nicolas Bertin (1668-1736), Peintre d’Histoire, Paris: Arthena, Association pour la diffusion de l’Histoire de l’Art, 1981, pp. 42, 111-112, no. 18-19, illus. 59-60.
Sobral, Luis de Moura. “La redécouverte d’un ‘Grand Prix’ du XVIIe siècle: la Construction de l’Arche de Noé par Nicolas Bertin.” La revue du Louvre et des Musées de France 37.3 (1987): p. 186-7.
Related Bibliography:
Dézallier d’Argenville, Antoine-Nicolas. Voyage pittoresque des environs de Paris, ou, Description des maisons royales, chateaux & autres lieux de plaisance. Paris: De Bure, 1762, p. 224.
Rosenthal, Donald. La grande manière, Historical and Religious Painting in France, 1700-1800. Seattle, WA; Rochester, NY: Memorial Art Gallery; University of Washington Press, 1987, n.3, p. 62.
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Exhibitions
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1964 – Champaign, IL, Krannert Art Museum, College of Fine and Applied Arts, University of Illinois, The Collection of Mr. and Mrs. A.W.S. Herrington of Indianapolis, Indiana, European and American Paintings and Graphic Art; European, American, and Oriental Decorative Arts, 27 September – 25 October 1964, nos. 34, 35, illus., as Jouvenet.
1965 – Indianapolis, Leah Ransburg Fine Arts Center, Indiana Central College, Paintings from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. A.W.S. Herrington, 2 – 10 October 1965, no. 13, illus., as Jouvenet.
1968 – Indianapolis, IN, Art Association of Indianapolis, Herron Museum of Art, The Nell Clarke Herrington Memorial Exhibition, 7-28 April 1968, Bulletin/Catalogue, Spring 1968, pp. 64, 65, illus., as Jouvenet.
1968 – Pine Bluff, Arkansas, Civic and Cultural Center, Selections from the Herrington Collection, Inaugural Exhibition of the Arts Museum, 3-19 May 1968, nos. 34, 35, illus., as Jouvenet.
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References
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Schnapper, Antoine. “Nouvelles acquisitions des musées de province. Musée de Saint-Étienne. A propos d’un tableau de N. Bertin.” La Revue du Louvre et des Musées de France (1972, nos. 4-5): 357, note 4.
Lefrançois, Thierry. Nicolas Bertin (1668-1736), Peintre d’Histoire, Paris: Arthena, Association pour la diffusion de l’Histoire de l’Art, 1981, pp. 42, 111-112, no. 18-19, illus. 59-60.
Sobral, Luis de Moura. “La redécouverte d’un ‘Grand Prix’ du XVIIe siècle: la Construction de l’Arche de Noé par Nicolas Bertin.” La revue du Louvre et des Musées de France 37.3 (1987): p. 186-7.
Related Bibliography:
Dézallier d’Argenville, Antoine-Nicolas. Voyage pittoresque des environs de Paris, ou, Description des maisons royales, chateaux & autres lieux de plaisance. Paris: De Bure, 1762, p. 224.
Rosenthal, Donald. La grande manière, Historical and Religious Painting in France, 1700-1800. Seattle, WA; Rochester, NY: Memorial Art Gallery; University of Washington Press, 1987, n.3, p. 62.
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Status
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Under research
