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File:Jean-Leon Gerome - Louis XI of France visiting Cardinal Balue in his iron cage.jpg

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Author
Jean-Léon Gérôme  (1824–1904)  wikidata:Q212499
 
Jean-Léon Gérôme
Description French painter, drawer and sculptor
Date of birth/death 11 May 1824 Edit this at Wikidata 10 January 1904 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Vesoul 9th arrondissement of Paris
Work location
Paris; Algeria; Greece; Florence; Rome; Constantinople Edit this at Wikidata
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creator QS:P170,Q212499
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Français : Le roi de France Louis XI visite le cardinal Jean La Balue, son secrétaire d’Etat, qu’il a fait emprisonné, l’accusant d’avoir intrigué contre lui en faisant alliance avec Charles le Téméraire. La Balue fut emprisonné en 1469 au château de Loches (au château d'Onzain près de Blois suivant d’autres sources) où il resta pendant onze ans jusque en 1480. La légende dit qu’il fut enfermé dans une cage, appelée « Fillette » où il ne pouvait se tenir ni débout, ni couché.

L'autre personnage serait Tristan l'Ermite.

Il se pourrait que la dédicace « à Cain » se réfère au sculpteur parisien Auguste Cain (1821-1894), de la même génération que Gérôme, qui fut d’ailleurs lui-même aussi sculpteur.

Une première version (ou ce tableau, avec une mauvaise lecture de la date, 1853 plutôt que 1883 ?), intitulée Louis XI visitant le Cardinal La Balue dans la prison de Plessiz-les-Tours, datée de 1853, appartenait à Auguste Cain source. - gravure

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English: Louis XI visiting the cardinal Jean La Balue, his Secretary of State, whom he had arrested. La Balue had been accused of having intrigued against his king by entering into an alliance with Charles the Bold. La Balue was imprisoned in 1469 in the castle of Loches (according to other sources, in the castle of Onzain near Blois) where he stayed during eleven years until 1480. A legend tells that he was locked into a cage in which he could neither stand up nor lie down.


The picture’s dedication "to Cain" might refer to the Parisian sculptor Auguste Cain (1821-1894), of the same generation as Gérôme, who was a sculptor himself.
Date 1883
date QS:P571,+1883-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium oil on mahogany panel
Dimensions 50 x 42 cm
Object history
  • Bernheim-Jeune, Paris
  • Collection Charles Bessonneau, Angers
  • Galerie Jean-François Heim, Basel
Inscriptions
  • Signed and dated in the middle on the left : à Cain / J. L. GEROME / 1883
  • Printed label on the verso: : Bernheim Jeune & Cie avec l’inscription à la main No. 18161 / Louis XI et le Cardinal La Ballue (sic)
Source/Photographer http://www.galerieheim.ch/oeuvre-details3.php?id_oeuvre=112&lng=1#
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Louis XI of France visiting Cardinal Balue in his iron cage, 1883, history painting by Jean-Léon Gérôme

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