FRANQOIS MARIUS GRANET. 1775-1849

97 THE PAINTER JACQUES STELLA IN PRISON. 1810

Oil on canvas. 194 X 144 cm. Inv. No 2740 Signed and dated lower right: Granet Roma 1810 A preparatory drawing for this picture, made in pen and watercolors, is now in The Louvre. The picture was in the collection of the Dukes of Leuchtenberg. In 1853, after the death of Maximilian, Duke of Leuchtenberg, husband of the Grand Duchess Maria Ni-kolayevna, the picture was brought to St Petersburg. From 1884 to 1919 it was exhibited together with the other pictures of this collection in the halls of the Academy of Arts in St Petersburg.

Provenance: 1810—14 The Collection of Empress Josephine, Paris; 1814—24 The Collection of Eugene Beau-harnais, Munich; 1824—1918 The Collection of the Dukes of Leuchtenberg, Munich (until 1853) and St Petersburg — Petrograd (since 1853); 1920—24 The Rumiantsev Museum, Moscow; since 1924 The Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow

Exhibitions: 1810 Paris (Salon), Cat. 387; 1814 (?) Paris (Salon), Cat. 464 (?); 1955 Moscow, Cat., p. 28; 1974—75 Paris, Cat. 82

Bibliography: Кат. ГМИИ 1957, p. 42; Кат. ГМИИ 1961, p. 60; F. P.Guisot, Salon de 1810, in: Etudes sur les Beaux-Arts, Paris, 1852, pp. 74—76; Dus-sieux 1856, pp. 324, 444; J. D. Passavant, Galerie Leuchtenberg. Gemaldesammlung des Herzogs von Leuchtenberg in Mtinchen, Frankfort on the Main, 1857, p. 444, ill.; Каталог картинной галереи герцога Николая Максимилиановича Лейхтенбергского, выставленной в залах Императорской Академии художеств, St Petersburg, 1884, No 224; Reau 1929, No 535; Ch. Blanc, Granet, in: Histoire des peintres de toutes les ecoles. Ecole francaise, vol. 3, Paris, 1863, pp. 4, 8

97 THE PAINTER JACQUES STELLA IN PRISON. 1810