Denis, MauriceFrench, 1870–1943Nativité
May one see it?
Unknown: the museum keeps its counsel
Musée des Augustins de Toulouse
Toulouse, France
The owner is known. Whether it is on view today, the museum does not say, and we were not trained to guess.
- In this state since
- Source
- The museum's own collection data
Particulars
- Accession number
- 68 15 1 ; PI 1606 (Autre numéro)
What it shows
In the catalog
Sources
- Musée des Augustins de Toulouse: the museum's own open data · fetched 2 days ago
- Image: Musée des Augustins de Toulouse — Ateliers Municipaux de Photographie; Ministère de la Culture (France), base Joconde
Meanwhile, in the life of Denis, Maurice
The whole life1882–1887 · Education
Lycée Condorcet
1888 · Education
Académie Julian
1890
Founding of the Nabis group
Together with his fellow students from the Académie Julian he formed the artistic group Les Nabis (from the Hebrew for "prophet"); Denis is considered its most prominent theorist.
August 1890
Manifesto in Art et Critique: the "flat surface"
He published in the journal Art et Critique his famous essay with the words defining a picture as "essentially a flat surface covered with colors assembled in a certain order" — a thesis that became part of the foundation of modernism.
January 1898
First trip to Rome, turn to neoclassicism
He visited Rome for the first time, where the works of Raphael and Michelangelo in the Vatican made a deep impression on him; on his return he reoriented his art toward neoclassicism.
1899
Exhibition at Durand-Ruel's and the breakup of the Nabis
Tensions among the Nabis came to a head at the exhibition at Durand-Ruel's gallery; from then on each went his own way in art, while remaining on friendly terms.
