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Sébastien Bourdon (Montpellier 1616-1671 Paris)
Lot 211

Sébastien Bourdon (Montpellier 1616-1671 Paris)

The Philistines Stricken after Looking into the Ark of the Covenant

Fermé8 July 2009

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Sébastien Bourdon (Montpellier 1616-1671 Paris)
The Philistines Stricken after Looking into the Ark of the Covenant
oil on canvas
58 x 79 in. (147.5 x 200 cm.)

Achille III de Harlay, Comte de Beaumont and Seigneur de Grosbois (1629-1712), Premier Président du Parlement de Paris, Paris.
Le Doux collection, and by descent to M. le Doux; sale, F.C. Joullain fils, Paris, 24 April 1775, lot 43.
Private collection; sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 12 March 1943, lot 15, as 'La peste d'Antioche'.
Private collection, Britain; Christie's, London, 23 July 1982, lot 159.

Note du spécialiste

The subject is taken from I Samual: V-VI. The composition derives from Poussin's interpretation of the subject, La Peste d'Asdod (Paris, Musée du Louvre), a work executed in Rome circa 1630 and brought to France some thirty years later for the Duc de Richelieu, who subsequently ceded it to Louis XIV. As noted by Geraldine Fowle (op. cit., pp. 40-1), Bourdon made use of Jean Baron's engraving in reverse of Poussin's composition. This painting can be dated stylistically to circa 1660.