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David à Naples : une source pour le Saint Jérôme de Québec

1990, RACAR : Revue d'art canadienne

Abstract

This article examines a work painted by David in Rome in 1779 when t.he artist was a pensioner of the Ring in the Academy of France (1775-80). An academie figure study on the theme of St. Jerome, the work was executed in the framework of assignments required of young pensioners at the time. Since its "reappearance" 40 years ago, the St. Jerome has received but little attention until now from Davidian criticism. An exception was Antoine Schnapper's initial investigation of the work in an important article in the Revue du Louvre (1974) where he sought to establish a chronology of David's works from his first stay in Rome. Schnapper noted for example the "strongly Caravaggesque character" of the painting, which he related to Ribera's aesthetic and also to that of the Bolognese who often treated the subject, Guercino in particular. But