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The pool of Bethesda. Oil painting by L. Chéron, ca. 1683. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.
The pool of Bethesda. Oil painting by L. Chéron, ca. 1683.
- Chéron, Louis, 1655-1725.
- Date:
- 1683
- Reference:
- 44864i
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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
Contributors
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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Where to find it
Location Status Access Closed stores44864i.1By appointment Manual request Note