Meekness

1. Commissioned by Guillaume Brissonnet (died 1674) in 1650 for the chapel of his Paris town house [according to Guillet de Saint-Georges [1690], p. 164]; by descent to his son, Jean Baptiste Brissonnet (died 1698) [the early history of the house and its chapel decorations is recounted by Mérot 1987, pp.244-5]; sold with the house to Vincent d'Invault, 1698; sold to Jacques Turgot (died 1722), maître des Requêtes, 1714; by descent in 1757 to Anne Robert Jacques Turgot (died 1781); in 1775 the house was sold and the decorations dismantled; at Turgot's death, the paintings passed to his heirs including Etienne François Turgot, marquis de Sousmont, to at least 1784. Vincent Donjeux, Paris; sold LeBrun et Paillet, Paris, April 29 and following, 1793, lot 330, with "Justice," for 1,550 livres to Jouberton. Lafontaine, Paris; sold Chariot, Paris, May 28-June 2, 1821, lot 128 with "Justice", as "L'Innocence," for Fr 480. M. de Mauméjan, Paris; sold Lacoste, Paris, June 29-July 2, 1825, lot 40, with "Justice" as "L'Innocence." Jean Toussaint Arrighi de Casanova, duc de Padoue (died 1853), château de Courson-Monteloup (Essonne); by decent to Ernest Louis Hyacinthe Arrigi de Casanova, duc de Padoue (died 1888); by descent to his great grandson comte Ernest de Caraman, Châeau de Courson (died 1958) [the later descent of "Justice" and "Mansuétude" is given by Mérot 1987, p. 247]. Sold Hôtel Drouot, Paris, December 4, 1967, lot 81, to Comte de Gramont, as school of Eustache Le Sueur, "La Charité." Heim Gallery, London by 1974; sold to the Art Institute, 1974.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• London, Heim Gallery, Religious and Biblical Themes in French Baroque Painting, 1974, cat.7.

• [Georges] Guillet de Saint-Georges, "Eustache Le Sueur [1690]," in Mémoires inédits sur la vie et les ouvrages des membres de l'Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture, vol. 1 (Paris, 1854), p. 164.
• Florent Le Comte, Cabinet des singularitez d'architecture, peinture, sculpture, et gravure, vol. 3, (Paris, 1700), p. 98.
• [Antoine Nicholas] D [ézallier d'Argenville (fils)], Voyage pittoresque de Paris, 2nd ed. (Paris, 1752), p. 207; reprint (Geneva, 1972), p. 49.
• [Antoine Joseph Dézallier d'Argenville (père)], Abrégé de la vie des plus fameux peintres, new ed., vol. 4 (Paris, 1762), p.116.
• Hébert, Dictionnaire pittoresque et historique, vol.1, Paris, 1766, p. 152; reprint (Geneva, 1972), p. 49.
• L[ouis] Dussieux and A[natole] de Montaiglon, Nouvelles recherches sur la vie et les ouvrages d'Eustache Le Sueur (Paris, 1852), pp. 26, 63.
• Charles Blanc, Historie des peintres de toutes les écoles, pt. 3, Ecole française, vol. 1 (Paris, 1865), p. 4.
• J[ules] J[oseph] Guiffrey, "Lettres et documents sur l'acquisition des tableaux d'Eustache Le Sueur pour la collection du roi (1776-1789)," Nouvelles Archives de l'art français, année 1877, reprint (Paris, 1973), pp. 337-341.
• Edmond Bonnaffé, Dictionnaire des amateurs français au XVII siècle (Paris, 1884), p. 44.
• Gabriel Rouchès, Eustache Le Sueur, Paris (1923), p. 73.
• Denys Sutton, "Richness of Old Masters," Financial Times, London ed. (June 25, 1974), p. 3.
• The Toledo Museum of Art, European Paintings (Toledo, 1976), p. 97.

Head of a Woman

Art Institute of Chicago

Holy Family

Art Institute of Chicago

Study for Saint Louis Healing the Sick

Art Institute of Chicago

Standing Draped Male Figure, Holding Staff

Art Institute of Chicago

A Bishop Carrying a Reliquary with a Skull and Study of Two Hands Holding a Reliquary of a Female Saint

Art Institute of Chicago

Figures at an Altar

Art Institute of Chicago

Scene from Roman History, with Draped Figure Presenting Book to Ruler

Art Institute of Chicago

Study for Priest Bearing Crozier

Art Institute of Chicago

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