Attributed to Jacques BLANCHARD (1600-1638)
Joseph... Lot 27
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Attributed to Jacques BLANCHARD (1600-1638)
Joseph and the wife of Puthiphar
Canvas
(Small accidents, restorations.)
Height : 86,5 cm 86,5 cm ; Width : 113 cm
Provenance:
- Sale Paris, Hôtel Drouot, April 19, 1989, n° 39 reproduced in colors
- Sale Monaco, Sotheby's, June 19, 1994, n° 448, reproduced in colors (attributed to Blanchard)
- Sale Neuilly, Me Aguttes 17 June 2008, n° 34
Bibliography :
Jacques Thuillier: Jacques Blanchard 1600-1638, exhibition catalog, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rennes, March 6-June 8, 1998, cited as no. 41 C (current location unknown).
Referring to Félibien and Charles Perrault, it is to the extraordinary talent of colorist that Blanchard owes his
nickname of French Titian. Born into a family of painters, Jacques Blanchard was a student of Horace Le Blanc in
His art is situated between the mannerism of Jacopo Palma and the Bolognese baroque. In 1624, Blanchard
leaves for Rome and familiarizes himself with the works of Guido Reni and Lanfranco and stays then two years in Venice, two
Venice, two decisive years for the evolution of his style. From these patterns borrowed from Titian,
Tintoretto and Veronese, Blanchard ends up with this talent of colorist with chromatic velvety
and the suave passages of tone. He was also influenced by his Venetian contemporaries Jan
Liss, Strozzi and Feti.
Our painting is probably an autograph resumption, with the help of assistants, of a lost painting of
Blanchard, known from an engraving by Cornelis Blomaert, which bears at the bottom a quatrain in Latin that can be
translated as follows: That by its lascivious face does not move you this woman / all burning that it is
of a burning adultery: but rather Joseph, whose chaste heart / is firm enough to overcome so
charming attractions.
Expert : Cabinet Turquin
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