Masterpieces

OLIVER, Isaac OLIVER, Peter (finished by)

Rouen, c. 1565 - London, 1619
London, c. 1594 - London, 1647

La Mise au Tombeau Entombment

Gouache on vellum paper, sticked on wood

H. 0.45 m; W. 0.46 m

Signed et dated : Incepit I.O/ 1616

Angers, musée des Beaux-Arts

Inv. J 415 (J-1881) P

Miniature painting

Commissionned by Jacques Ier or Charles Ier, before his coronation Coll. Charles Ier, Edward Bass and John Hunt in 1652-1653. Coll. Jacques II en 1688, circa 1770 in the royal collections. Entered in the museum, before 1804, probably during a sent in the "year V" of the State

16th century

Bibliography

Cordellier, Dominique, "La mise au tombeau d'Isaac Oliver au musée d'Angers", La revue du Louvre et des musées de France, 1983/3, P.178-187.

Olivier Meslay, Arlette Sérullaz, Barthélémy Jobert, D'Outre-Manche, l'art britannique dans les collections publiques françaises, Ed: RMn, Paris, 1994, p. 260, n°173

Patrick Le Nouëne, "les premiers envois de l'Etat au Museum de l'Ecole Centrale de Maine-et-Loire", Archives d'Anjou, n°8, 2004, pp. 69-70