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Photo RMN - © Gérard Blot
Exhibitions
Royal Academy, Londres, 1841
Birmingham City art Gallery, 1952
The romantic mouvement, Tate Gallery, Londres, 1958
Art and the Industrial Revolution, City Art Gallery, Manchester, 1968, n°39
Pittura Inglese 1660-1840, 1975, n° 121
John Martin, Londres, Hazlitt, Gooden and Fox, 1975, n° 18
Alexander Thomas: the Unknown Genius, Lighthouse Galleries, 1995
Visions du futur, Paris, Grand Palais, 2000-2001, n° 71.
Light: the Industrial Age 1750-1900, Art & Science, Pittsburgh, Carnegie Museum of Art, 2001
Great British Paintings from American Collections, Holbein to Hockney, 2002, n° 56
MARTIN, John
Haydon (Great Britain), 19th July 1789 - Isle of Man, 17th February 1854
Le pandemonium, inspiré du Paradis Perdu de Milton
Pandemonium, inspired from Paradise Lost by John Milton
1841
Oil on canvas
H. 1.28 m; W. 1.84 m
Signed and dated "John Martin./ 1841"
Paris, musée du Louvre, Département des Peintures
RF 2006.21
Painting
Bought from the artist Benjamin Hick of Bolton Sale, untraced about February 1843 (with the Celstian City, to J.C Grundy for George Whiteley (1825-1873) of Blackburn and Halifax By descent to his great-grandson Sir Hugo Baldwyn Huntington-Whiteley, 3rd Bt, of Ripple Hall, Tewkesbury. With Peter Nahum Ltd, London 1994 acquired by the Forbes Magazine Collection French and Co., New York Musée du Louvre, 2006
19th century
Bibliography
Jean Seznec, John Martin en France, Londres 1964
William Fever, The art of John Martin, Oxford, 1975
Olivier Meslay, "le Pandemonium de John Martin", Paris, musée du Louvre, tableau du mois n° 142, mai 2007, feuillet
Olivier Meslay, "John Martin ou le Cauchemar de l'infini" dans Revue du Louvre, 2007/2, p.6-9.
