Young Gaston, Known as the Angel of Foix is an 1838 oil on canvas painting by Claudius Jacquand, first exhibited at the 1838 Paris Salon, where it was praised by the art critics,[1][2] then at the 1839 Brussels Salon, where it won a silver-gilt medal.[3] Its owner donated it to the Louvre, where it still hangs, but retained the usufruct.[4]
It shows the drama of Orthez in 1380 as told by Jean Froissart in his Chronicles,[5] in which Gaston III, Count of Foix imprisoned his son Gaston after the latter tried to poison him. The Count later murdered the young Gaston.
References
edit- ^ (in French) Frédéric Mercey, « Le salon de 1838 », Revue des Deux Mondes, vol. 14, 1838
- ^ (in French) « Beaux-arts - Salon de 1838 », Journal des Demoiselles, vol. 6, May 1838
- ^ (in French) Moniteur, « Récompenses », Journal de la Belgique, no 342, 8 December 1839, p. 1-2
- ^ (in French) "Votre Argent". 8 November 2013.
- ^ (in French) « Salon de 1838 - peinture », Le Magasin pittoresque, vol. 6, April 1838