Elisabetta SiraniItalie, 1638–1665L'Amour endormi
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Musée du Louvre
Paris, France
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- Dans cet état depuis
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- Le musée
À propos du tableau
L'Amour endormi est un tableau réalisé par la peintre italienne Elisabetta Sirani au XVIIe siècle. De format horizontal, cette huile sur toile est une peinture mythologique qui représente un Amour pendant son sommeil.
Étendu sur le dos contre ses ailes, il se repose nu dans un lit à baldaquin dont la tentoure rouge s'entrouvre sur un paysage arboré. Son carquois bleu est posé près de lui au premier plan de la composition.
Achetée par Louis XVI en 1785, l'œuvre fait partie des collections du musée du Louvre, à Paris, en France. Elle se trouve depuis 1838 en dépôt au château de Compiègne, à Compiègne, dans l'Oise.
Notice
- Numéro d’inventaire
- INV 671
Au catalogue
Sources
- Musée du Louvre
- Image : Musée du Louvre — © 2015 GrandPalaisRmn (musée du Louvre) / Tony Querrec
Pendant ce temps, chez Elisabetta Sirani
La vie entière8 janvier 1638
Born
by 1654
Takes over the family workshop
By 1654 her father is incapacitated by gout and can no longer work, and Elisabetta takes over the running of the workshop: she becomes the family’s main breadwinner, living on teaching fees and portrait commissions. The studio thrives, helped by the progressive atmosphere of Bologna, where women artists were accepted and celebrated; her sisters Barbara and Anna Maria serve as her assistants.
28 February 1657
First major public commission
At nineteen she receives her first major public commission, from Daniele Granchi, prior of the Carthusian church of the Certosa di Bologna; she will go on to paint at least thirteen public altarpieces.
1660
Opens a painting school for women
She opens a school — the first school of painting for women in Europe outside a convent, open regardless of the women’s artistic and social connections; besides her younger sisters Barbara and Anna Maria she trains at least twelve young women, among them the wood-engraver Veronica Fontana, Caterina Pepoli, Maria Elena Panzacchi, Camelia Lanteri, Lucretia Forni, Veronica Franchi and Ginevra Cantofoli, who was portrayed as Sirani’s rival.
August 1665
Sudden illness and suspicions of poisoning
She falls suddenly ill; only days earlier the maidservant Lucia Tolomelli had asked to leave the family’s service, and suspicion of poisoning fell on her, though the charges were soon withdrawn. The likely cause is peritonitis after a ruptured ulcer, perhaps brought on by the strain of providing for the whole household.
28 août 1665
Died
