TAUNAY Nicolas-Antoine (Attribué à) Lot n° 40

Paris 1755 - id. 1830 Hermit preaching said Peter the hermit preaching the first crusade Oil on canvas of origin (on the back some pieces of reinforcement; small restoration in bottom on the left). H. 46 - W. 55 cm Related to the composition of N. A Taunay (Canvas; 42 x 52,5 cm) preserved in the Musée des Beaux-Arts of Arras, taking up the one exhibited at the Salon of 1787 (cf. Claudine Lebrun Jouve. Nicolas-Antoine Taunay. Catalog of the work p. 511 & p. 512 (& p. 225) - Arthena 2003)