The Martyrdom of Saint Lawrence
c. 1660
Painter, French, 1631 - 1681

Artwork overview
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Medium
oil on canvas
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 81.7 x 68.5 cm (32 3/16 x 26 15/16 in.)
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Accession
1998.68.1
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Private collection;[1] (sale, Loiseau, Schmitz, and Digard, Saint-Germain-en-Laye, 22 June 1997); private collection, Switzerland; (Simon C. Dickinson Ltd., London); purchased 3 June 1998 by NGA.
[1] In a letter dated 15 June 1997 (recipient not identified, photocopy in NGA curatorial files), Dorival identifies the NGA painting "Martyr de Saint Laurent par Philippe de Champaigne" with a picture recorded in a sequence of 18th and 19th century sale catalogues as the pendant to a lost Martyrdom of Saint Lawrence, the pair given to Philippe de Champaigne in the old catalogues (see Bernard Dorival, Philippe de Champaigne, 1602-1674: La vie, l'oeuvre et le catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre, 2 vols., Paris, 1976: nos. 787 and 757).
Associated Names
Bibliography
1976
Dorival, Bernard. Philippe de Champaigne, 1602-1674. La vie, l'oeuvre, et le catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre. 2 vols. Paris, 1976: 2:224, 226, no. 787.
1992
Dorival, Bernard. Supplément au catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre de Philippe de Champaigne. Paris, 1992: 84.
Dorival, Bernard. Jean-Baptiste de Champaigne (1631-1681): la vie, l'homme et l'art. Paris, 1992.
2001
Kouznetsova, Irina and Elena Sharnova. State Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, France XVI - First Half of the XIXth Century. Collection of Paintings. Moscow, 2001: 271.
2009
Conisbee, Philip, et al. French Paintings of the Fifteenth through the Eighteenth Century. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 2009: no. 9, 49-52, color repro.
Inscriptions
lower left: P DE CHAMPAIGNE
Wikidata ID
Q20177514