03 — ARTWORK
Stella in Prison
GRANET, François-Marius · 1810 →
- MEDIUM
- Oil on canvas, 194 x 144 cm
- TYPE
- Historical
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The French painter Jacques Stella (1596-1657), in prison in Rome as painted by David's pupil Francois-Marius Granet, might seem another persecuted geniusin classical Rome, a person's invisible tutelary god. In art from the classical period onwards, the low-ranking god was depicted as a winged, usually childish figure.. 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.
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