# Stella in Prison [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [GRANET, François-Marius]() - Date: 1801-1850 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 194 x 144 cm ## Commentary The French painter Jacques Stella \(1596-1657\), in prison in Rome as painted by David's pupil Francois-Marius Granet, might seem another persecuted genius. In fact the Madonna and Child that Stella has drawn on his cell walls has attracted the admiration of his jailor and fellow inmates, and there is already the promise of hardship overcome. This was indeed to be Granet's own experience, not least as a result of the purchase of this picture by Napoleon's ex-empress, Josephine. ## Related artworks - [Crypt of San Martino ai Monti, Rome \(detail\)]() - [Crypt of San Martino ai Monti, Rome]() - [Interior of the Choir in the Capuchin Church on the Plazza Barberini in Rome]() - [Meeting of the Monastic Chapter]() - [Monks in a Cave]() - [Quay of the Seine with Barge, Fog Effect]() - [San Trinità dei Monti and the Villa Medici, Rome]() - [The San Rocco Bridge and the Grand Waterfall at Tivoli]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()