FRÉDÉRIC-HENRI SCHOPIN | Vision of Cardinal de Richelieu on his deathbed

The artist's personal collection ;
Posthumous sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 2 February 1881, lot 30

Salon, Paris, 1872, n° 1398, with the description : "En se redressant, dans un dernier accès d'épouvante, il fait tomber le meuble sur lequel était placé son portefeuille, que Mazarin s'empresse de ramasser. (1642.)" ; 
Universal exhibition, Vienna, 1873, France, p. 142, n° 582

Explication des ouvrages de peinture, sculpture, architecture, gravure, et lithographie, des artistes vivants exposés au palais des Champs-Élysées le 1er mai 1871, Paris, 1872, p. 212, n° 1398 ;
Jules Claretie, Peintres et sculpteurs contemporains, Paris, 1874, p. 334

Good overall condition. Relined. Slightly worn areas are perceptible on the canvas. Under UV light : Two repaints are visible : one of sinuous shape on the top of the canopy bed, and on the left of the bed, of about 15 cm, in all likelihood due to an old tear. The other one in Louis XIII's armchair base, in the shape of a T measuring about 10 cm, probably due to an old tear.
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