Jacques STELLA (Lyon 1596-Paris 1657)
The Virgin adoring the sleeping Child.
Oil on panel and gold highlights.
On the reverse in the upper right corner, MB mark of the panel preparer Melchior de Bout.
A number in pen 34.
36,7 x 27,5 cm.
On the reverse side five reinforcing cleats. Trace of vertical crack towards the middle.
Analogy:
Virgin and Sleeping Child, Panel (39 x 29 cm. - Paris.
PIASA. June 9, 2013, no. 9), reproduced by Sylvain Kaspern, among the variants of the composition in the Lyon museum, Le Sommeil de l'Enfant
Jesus avec trois cherubs (Madone d'Anne d'Autriche).
(See http://www-d'histoire-et-dart.cm >Stella).
On the Antwerp panel maker Melchior de Bout (active around 1625 - 1658), whose mark can be found in the middle of the 17th century in Paris on panels by
Charles Le Brun, Jacques Linard or Lubin Baugin, we refer to the study of Anna Koopstra (De Antwerpse 'witter ende paneelmaker' Melchior de Bout. Oud Holland, vol.
123, year 2010, pp. 108-124).
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