Claude Déruet

Dervet, Claude
French, 1588 - 1660

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This image features two allegorical figures surrounded by intricate ornamental designs and symbolic objects related to knowledge and learning. The figure on the left wears robes, a helmet, and holds a shield and baton, while cherub-like children are below them. The figure on the right holds compasses and is surrounded by instruments and books. In the center, there's a shield with the word "ATTENVANDO" and an emblem with a building-like structure. The drawing style includes detailed lines and a limited color palette of blues and earth tones. The text along the bottom reads "IMPERFECTORVM ACADEMIA."
Claude Déruet, Imperfectorum Academia (Academy of the Imperfects), c. 1619, pen and brown ink with blue wash over black chalk, incised for transfer, on laid paper, Julius S. Held Collection, 1985.1.4

Imperfectorum Academia (Academy of the Imperfects)

Claude Déruet · c. 1619 · pen and brown ink with blue wash over black chalk, incised for transfer, on laid paper ·  Accession ID  1985.1.4
A man, Jesus, carries the crossbeam of a wooden cross over one shoulder and stumbles amid a crowd of dozens of people on foot, sitting, or on horseback in this wide, octagonal painting. All the people appear to have pale skin and wear robes in shades of ivory white, rose pink, ultramarine blue, soft red, or golden yellow. Two men walking away from Jesus have their wrists bound behind their backs. Two men near Jesus lift their arms and look at him, and Jesus looks back over one shoulder. The cross is taller than he is, so the long beam drags behind him. A woman has fainted to the right and is supported by four people. Another bare-breasted woman and three children sit at the bottom center of the composition. Dozens of men walk or urge the crowd along from horseback. Dark trees grow up either side of the painting, and cliff faces and a ruined structure are in the distance between. The low sun shades the clouds along the horizon peach, and the sky deepens to blue above bands of gray clouds.
Anonymous Artist, Road to Calvary, 1615/1620, oil on copper, Gift of Edward T. and Bonnie S. Wilson, 1996.143.1

Road to Calvary

Anonymous Artist · 1615/1620 · oil on copper ·  Accession ID  1996.143.1

Bibliography

1853

  • Meaune, E. "Recherches sur la vie et les ouvrages de Claude Déruet, peintre et graveur lorrain (1588-1660)." Bulletin de la société archéologique de Lorraine 4 (1853): 135-250.

1894

  • Jacquot, A. "Note sur Claude Déruet, peintre et graveur lorrain (1588-1660)." Réunion des sociétés des beaux-arts des départments 18 (1894): 763-945.

1952

  • Fessenden, De Witt H. The Life and Works of Claude Déruet, Court Painter, 1588-1660. New York, 1952.

1992

  • Thuillier, Jacques. L'art en Lorraine au temps de Jacques Callot. Exh. cat. Musée des Beaux-Arts, Nancy, 1992: 210-217, 337-349, 394-398.

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: 132-133.