My wife and I really liked a painting we saw at the Louvre, but neither of us can remember the name. PLEASE HELP!
I’ll attempt a description:
It’s a dead girl floating in a lake or pond. She is wearing white robes and her hands are bound together and resting where they would naturally lay, crossed over her lower abdomen. She has a peaceful look on her face and a halo over her face also. The painting is relatively dark, but there is a (heavenly?) light coming down from above.
I’d like to know the name of the painting and the artist…
Thanks!!
La Jeune Martyr, by Paul Delaroche.
Whooo. And I thought I liked morbid paintings…
When was this painted? And where the heck is it in the Louvre? I’ve never seen it before…
1856 (a year before Delaroche’s death). 19th century French paintings are on the 2nd floor in the Sully wing (Ingres’ Turkish Bath is there too). Here’s more about the painting.
Thanks, AG…I should have known to look on the ArtMagick site!
This is probably tucked high up on a wall somewhere, easy to ignore while you’re being wowed by the Ingreses and Davids and Delacroixes and Gericaults.
Still, you’d think I would have noticed the Dead Chick With a Halo in Bondage.
No, actually, Ukelele Ike, it’s right at eye-level. You see it as you walk around the corner into one of the rooms. Took my breath away and made me cry. It’s a lovely painting, and it seems like I see it everywhere now. Easy to find a print.
