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Group of Apostles

1854–61
Not on view
In this study, Flandrin works out the positioning of two apostles—reprising the clasped hands of the figure in profile at right—in preparation for a mural titled "The Mission of the Apostles" in the nave of the Church of Saint-Germain-des-Près, Paris. The numbering of the grid along the lower edge from seventeen to twenty-two suggests how this study aligned with others in composing the mural. The artist completed eighty-five paintings throughout the sanctuary, choir, nave, and transepts of the church between 1842 and his death in 1864. As an ensemble, they represent the most ambitious religious decorative program completed in France in the nineteenth century.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Group of Apostles
  • Artist: Hippolyte Flandrin (French, Lyons 1809–1864 Rome)
  • Date: 1854–61
  • Medium: Graphite; squared in graphite
  • Dimensions: 12 1/16 x 8 7/8 in. (30.6 x 22.6cm)
  • Classification: Drawings
  • Credit Line: Purchase, Stephen A. Geiger Gift, 1991
  • Object Number: 1991.1
  • Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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Head of a Woman; Study for a mural in the Church of Saint-Paul, Nîmes, Hippolyte Flandrin French, Graphite
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Melchizedek Presenting Abraham with Bread and Wine, Hippolyte Flandrin French, Graphite and gray wash; pen and black ink in framing design
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