Auguste de FORBIN (La Roque d'Antheron 1777... - Lot 40 - Ader

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Auguste de FORBIN (La Roque d'Antheron 1777... - Lot 40 - Ader
Auguste de FORBIN (La Roque d'Antheron 1777 - Paris 1841) The Coronation of Ines de Castro Original canvas Signed and dated lower left: "A. Forbin 1832" 149 x 197,5 cm General bibliography on the 1812 version: - Stéphanie Félicité, comtesse de Genlis, Les tableaux de M. le comte de Forbin, ou, La mort de Pline l'ancien, et Inès de Castro, nouvelles historiques, Paris, Chez Maradan, de l'Imprimerie de P. Didot, l'aîné, 1817. - Portefeuille du comte de Forbin contenant ses tableaux, dessins et esquisses les plus remarquables avec un texte rédigé par M. le comte de Marcellus, publié par Challamel, 1843, pp. 4 à 6, avec reproduction gravée de la composition. - Alain Pougetoux, La collection de peintures de l'impératrice Joséphine, Notes et documents des musées de France n° 37, Réunion des musées nationaux, 2003, p. 170, n° 334. - Catalogue de l'exposition, L'invention du passé Gothique mon amour 1802-1830, tome 1, Bourg-en-Bresse, Monastère royal de Brou, 2014, p. 73. This author points out a version of different size that passed in the sale of Count Pourtalès. Our painting is an autograph replica of a composition that Forbin had presented twice at the Salon with success. The first one, of the same dimensions as ours, was shown at the Salon of 1812 under the n° 245, and had been bought by the Empress Josephine for the Malmaison (see bibliography Pougetoux 2003). A second version was exhibited at the 1819 Salon, no. 447: "Ines de Castro, unearthed and crowned a few days after her death in the cloister of the Abbey of Alcobaça, in Portugal, by Don Pedro, her husband. The Chancellor of Portugal, kneeling on the ground, paid his respects to her and the Prior of the Abbey attended the ceremony. The romantic legend of this tragic love story, taken from Camoens' Lusiades (song III, stanzas 120-135), had a real posterity in the 19th and 20th centuries (numerous operas, Victor Hugo, Henri de Montherlant's La reine morte). Forbin became friends with Granet in his youth in Aix-en-Provence and joined David's studio where he met Pierre Revoil and Fleury Richard. He was appointed director of the Royal Museums in 1817, a position that he combined with his career as a painter. He specialized in troubadour subjects drawn from Iberian history; he had spent a long time in Spain and especially in Portugal in 1807 and 1808 during the campaign of General Junot. He distinguished himself in particular during the battle of Évora.
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