Saint John in Patmos
Canvas
Signed on the book
101x81 inch
References:
Gloria Martínez Leiva, Charles de la Traverse, un pintor francés en la España de Carlos II, investigart, Historias olvidadas, Pintura, November 9, 2021.
Best known for his etchings and his spirited and virtuoso drawings, Charles de la Traverse was above all a painter, a pupil of François Boucher, who won the second Prix de Rome in 1748. After a stay in the papal city from 1749 to 1755 , he worked in Naples for the Marquis d'Ossun, French ambassador, whom he followed to Madrid. He stayed there for nearly fifteen years, half artist, half embassy attaché. The exact date of his death in Paris remains uncertain. It has been suggested that our painting is a self-portrait, the painter equating his exile with that
of the apostle evangelist in Greece.
This painting is one of the few that have come down to us from the artist: let us quote the "Tobie burying the dead" (Saintes museum), a portrait of a young woman, CA 1750 (Marseille, Musée Grobet-Labadié), Vénus sur the waters, 1752 (Budapest, Szépmùvészeti Múzeum), Allegory at the birth of the infant don Carlos Eusebio
(Madrid, Lazaro Galdiano Museum).
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