Saint Philip
Artist
Georges de La Tour
(French, 1593-1652)
CultureFrench
Dateca. 1625
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions25 x 21 in. (63.5 x 53.3 cm)
Overall, Frame: 36 x 31 1/2 x 3 in. (91.4 x 80 x 7.6 cm)
Other (Crate): 55 × 52 × 19 in. (139.7 × 132.1 × 48.3 cm)
Overall, Frame: 36 x 31 1/2 x 3 in. (91.4 x 80 x 7.6 cm)
Other (Crate): 55 × 52 × 19 in. (139.7 × 132.1 × 48.3 cm)
Credit LineGift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr.
Object number77.431
Collections
On View
Chrysler Museum of Art, Gallery 206
Label TextGeorges de la Tour French, 1593–1652 Saint Philip, ca. 1625 Oil on canvas In some collecting areas, Chrysler sought out the advice of experts such as Bertina Suida Manning and her father, Wilhelm Suida. They helped him assemble an exceptional group of French and Italian Baroque paintings, including this rare canvas by Georges de la Tour. De la Tour shows the Christian apostle Saint Phillip as a rough-hewn and humble peasant and captures the startling refractions of light in the simple glass buttons on his coarse tunic. This work was part of a cycle of all twelve apostles that was eventually installed in a church in Albi in the South of France before being dispersed among many museums. Gift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr. 77.431ProvenanceHôtel Drouot, Paris, 1941; Nicolas Czynober, Paris, 1941-1973; private collection, Switzerland, 1973; Walter P. Chrysler, Jr., 1975; Gift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr. Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, 1977. Exhibition History"Georges de La Tour," Orangerie des Tuileries, Paris, France, May 10 - September 25, 1972. "Hommage to the Louvre," Chrysler Museum at Norfolk, Va., May - September 1976. "Treasures from the Chrysler Museum at Norfolk and Walter P. Chrysler, Jr.," Tennessee Fine Arts Center at Cheekwood, Nashville, Tenn., June 12 - September 5, 1977. (Exh. cat. no. 9). "French Painting from The Chrysler Museum," North Carolina Museum of Art, May 31 - Sept. 14, 1986; Birmingham Museum of Art, November 6, 1986 - January 18, 1987. (Exh. cat. no. 5). "Georges de La Tour and His World: Masterpieces in Focus," National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., October 6, 1996 - January 5, 1997; Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, February 1 - May 10, 1997. "Les Galaries nationales du Grand Palais," Grand Palais, Paris, France, October 3, 1997 - January 26, 1998. "Georges de la Tour," Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, Spain, February 23 - June 12, 2016. "Georges de la Tour: L'Europa della luce," Palazzo Reale, Milan, Italy, February 7, 2020 - September 27, 2020.Published ReferencesBenedict Nicolson and Christopher Wright. _Georges de la Tour_. London, 1947, pp. 21-24, 181-182, no. 40. Eric M. Zafran and Mario Amaya, _Treasures from the Chrysler Museum at Norfolk and Walter P. Chrysler, Jr._, exh. cat., Tennessee Fine Arts Center at Cheekwood, Nashville, Tenn., 1977, no. 9. Benedict Nicolson. _The International Caravaggesque Movement_. Oxford. 1980: p. 63. Chrysler Museum. _Selections from the Permanent Collection: The Chrysler Museum_. Norfolk, VA: Chrysler Museum of Art. 1982: p. 36. Christopher Wright. _The Art of the Forger_. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company. 1985:p. 46, ill. Jefferson C. Harrison, Jr. _French Paintings from the Chrysler Museum_, exhibition catalogue. North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, and Birmingham Museum of Art, 1986-1987. Roger Therond. _Grand Peintres: La Tour_. No. 37. Paris: Cgedipresse. 1988: p. 5, ill. Jefferson C. Harrison. _The Chrysler Museum Handbook of the European and American Collections: Selected Paintings, Sculpture and Drawings_. The Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, VA, 1991, p. 28, #21. Jacques Thuillier. _Georges de La Tour_. Paris: Flammarion. 1992: 47, 55. Jean-Claude Le Floch. _La Tour: Le Clair et l'Obscur_. Paris: Editions Herscher, 1995, 30-31. Philip Conisbee, and others. _Georges de La Tour and his World_. Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 1996, pp. 8, 43, 78, 142, 198, 242-243, 254, 263, colorplate, p. 46, black and white ill. 263. Philip Conisbee and others. _Georges de La Tour, l'Exposition du Grand Palais_. Paris, 1997: 50-65, color ill. 52-53. Jean-Pierre Cuzin Et Dimitri Salmon. _Georges de La Tour Histoire d'une Redecouverte_. (1997): pp. 59, 113, 161, 170, 173, 175., color ill. 59, 113. Pierre Rosenberg and Jean-Pierre Cuzin et J. Thuillier. _Catalogue de l'Exposition_. No.2 Hors-serie de L'OEIL, (Paris, 1997), color ill. 54-55, 63. Jean-Pierre Cuzin, and Pierre Rosenberg. _Georges de La Tour_. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 1997, 90, color ill. p. 91. Robert Fohr. _Georges de La Tour le Maitre des Nuits_. Paris: Société Nouvelle Adam Biro, 1997: p. 10-11, color ill. p. 10. Beaux Arts Magazine, "Georges de La Tour," HORS SERIE N. 148, (October, 1997): 71. Jean-Pierre Mohen, Danièle Devynck, Anne Reinbold, Jean-Claude Boyer, Élisabeth Martin, and Geneviève Aitken, _Les Apôtres de Georges de La Tour: Réalités et virtualités_, exh. cat., Musée Toulouse-Lautrec, Albi, France, 2004, plate 9, 24-25, 90. Akiya Takahashi, ed., _Georges de La Tour_, exh. cat., The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo and The Yomiuri Shimbun, Japan, 2005, 171, no. 24. *In Japanese and French. ISBN: 4-906536-32-8 Jeff Harrison, _Collecting with Vision: Treasures From the Chrysler Museum of Art_ (London: D. Giles Ltd., 2007), 27, fig. 16. ISBN: 978-0-940744-72-1 Jean-Pierre Cuzin, Figures de la Réalité: Caravagesques français Georges de La Tour, les freres Le Nain, (Paris: éditions Hazan, 2010), 200, fig. 196. Dimitri Salmon and Andrés Úbeda de los Cobos, eds., _Georges de La Tour (1593-1652)_ (Madrid: Museo Nacional del Prado, 2016) p. 88 and 91, cat. no. 2.
