The pool of Bethesda. Oil painting by L. Chéron, ca. 1683.

  • Chéron, Louis, 1655-1725.
Date:
1683
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44864i
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The pool of Bethesda. Oil painting by L. Chéron, ca. 1683. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

About this work

Description

"An angel went down at a certain season, into the pool, and troubled the water: whosoever then first after the troubling of the water stepped in was made whole of whatsoever disease he had" -- John V.4

Publication/Creation

1683

Physical description

1 painting : oil on canvas ; canvas 87.5 x 107 cm, frame 109 x 139.5 x 8.5 cm

Reference

Wellcome Collection 44864i

References note

François Marandet, ''The pool of Bethesda' by Louis Chéron: a modello discovered at the Wellcome Library, London', The Burlington Magazine, March 2014, 156: 162-163
François Marandet, Louis Chéron (Paris, 1655 - Londres, 1725): l'ambition du dessin parfait, [Caen]: Musée des Beaux-Arts de Caen, [2021], pp. 184-185, catalogue no. 9

Creator/production credits

Identified by Marandet (op. cit.) as "probably the oldest surviving evidence of Chéron's activity as a painter", and as a modello for a larger canvas commissioned from Chéron in 1683 for the church of S. Pantaleone, Venice, where it remains

Exhibitions note

Exhibited in 'Louis Chéron: L'ambition du dessin parfait' at Musée des Beaux-Arts de Caen, France, 4 December 2021 - 6 March 2022

Notes

This item was reframed February 2020 to comply with the specifications of an exhibition it featured in. The former frame is still in our collections, but remains unrequestable. Dimensions available on request. Dimensions of the new frame are included above.

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