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Meekness
Eustache Le Sueur (French, 1616–1655)
1650
- Medium
- Oil on panel
- Classification
- Painting
- Dimensions
- 100.7 × 67 cm (39 7/8 × 26 3/8 in.); Framed: 111.8 × 78.2 × 7.7 cm (44 × 30 3/4 × 3 in.)
- Culture
- France
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Painting and Sculpture of Europe
- Credit line
- Charles H. and Mary F. S. Worcester Collection
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
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About this work
Eustache Le Sueur painted the eight Beatitudes, the ideal qualities Jesus identified in his Sermon on the Mount in the Bible, for the private chapel in his patron Guillaume Birssonnet’s Paris home. This personification of meekness was part of that decoration and accompanied an altarpiece of the Annunciation, monochrome scenes of the life of the Virgin Mary, and a ceiling depicting her Assumption. The Beatitudes, with their patterned gold ground, lined the lower story of this elegant ensemble. Only the Annunciation altarpiece and two of the Beatitudes survive.
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
