François de TROY (1645-1730) L'Apparition des saints Gervais - Lot 56

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François de TROY (1645-1730) L'Apparition des saints Gervais - Lot 56
François de TROY (1645-1730) L'Apparition des saints Gervais et Protais à saint Ambroise Frameless Canvas (Old Restorations) 61 x 48 cm Established in Paris, rue Neuve-des-Petits-Champs, François de Troy (1645-1730) acquired on 13 juillet 1700 a country house in Bry-sur-Marne. As early as 1702, he offered to the small church of Saint-Gervais-Saint-Protais a painting representing a scene from the life of the patron saints of the parish, as reported by Jacques de Voragine (La Légende dorée). The oldest known source on this work is the Description de la généralité de Paris, by Philippe Hernandez, published in Paris in 1759 (p. 27) : "Bry sur Marne, Parish of the Diocese, & two and a half leagues from this town, on the left bank of the Marne. 200 communians. Patrons, S. Gervais & S. Protais. (...) The painting on the high altar of the Church is a gift from the late Mr. de Troy, a famous painter, who lived near his country home in this parish." This text was taken again with some variants by Pierre Thomas Nicolas Hurtaut in his Dictionnaire historique de la ville de Paris et de ses environs (Paris, 1779, p. 697). The painting was still in place in 1840, but had disappeared in 1880 (see Inventaire général des œuvres d'art décorant les édifices du département de la Seine, tome deuxième, arrondissement de Sceaux, Paris, 1880, p. 123). The painting is clearly related to the work that was once lost in Bry-sur-Marne. Its workmanship is characteristic of François de Troy and the subject illustrates a passage in which Saint Ambrose intervenes (c. 340-397), the one in which Saints Gervais and Protais (martyred in 57, in Milan, during the reign of Nero), presented by Saint Paul , appeared to him for the third time while he was at prayer: "So Ambrose was one night in the church of Saints Nabor and Félix ; and as, after praying for a long time, he had fallen into a state between vigil and sleep, two handsome young men dressed in white app
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