Events

2023: SALE OF AN IMPORTANT WORK BY GEORGES MOREAU DE TOURS

The painting, An XVIIIth century ecstatic. Trial by crucifixion, 1879, exhibited at the Salon des Artistes Français, N° 2183, received a 2^nd Medal. It is the first of a series on paranormal subjects : 1885 Salon, N° 1810, A stigmatised woman in the Middle Ages, 1886 Salon, Two Women under the influence of morphine, 1890 Salon, Entranced patients in the Dr. Luys’s department at the Charité hospital, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Reims, Inv. 890.35.1. In composition and execution, this painting shows Moreau de Tours’s study of XVIIth century masters, in the spirit of the Counter-Reformation, as much for the subject matter of an ecstasy, as for the execution. Caravaggio’s influence is particularly obvious in the chiaroscuro and the diagonal composition of the scene. The position of the cross recalls the Conversion of Saint Paul on the road to Damascus, 1600, and the Crucifixion of Saint Peter, 1601, both in the Cerasi chapel in the Santa Maria del Popolo basilica in Rome.

The young woman in ecstasy is no doubt Thérèse de Champ Renaud, who also studied with Cabanel at the Beaux-Arts school as did Georges Moreau de Tours, she exhibited under her own name at the Salon from 1885 to 1893. She was Moreau de Tours’s muse, his only model and pupil, who collaborated to some of his works, and exhibited after her marriage in 1893 as Thérèse Moreau de Tours.

Lecture on the Art Collection of the Mairie of Bois-le-Roi, 2^nd of July 2022

The Association des Amis de Moreau de Tours took part in the celebration of the Syndicat d’Initiative’s First Anniversary, July 30^th to July 3^rd 2022.
The Founder Chairwoman Monique Riccardi-Cubitt gave a Lecture at the Mairie on the Bois-le-Roi Art Collection on July 2^nd.