Michel DUMAS (Lyon, 1812-1885) - Lot 71

Michel DUMAS (Lyon, 1812-1885) Mater Dolorosa Original canvas. Signed lower right. 55.5 x 34.8 cm Label 217 on the back. Sketch, or rather presentation modello, for the Notre-Dame-des-Sept-Douleurs chapel in the Église de la Sainte-Trinité in Paris, which is still in place. The order was placed and paid for by Mrs. Oppenheim, wife of the banker, and the large canvases were exhibited at the 1877 Salons (in the Monuments publics section and 1878, before being mounted on the wall. The subjects were chosen in memory of the French soldiers who died in the Franco-German war of 1870-1871. Bibliography: Pierre Bonnassieux, Michel Dumas, peintre lyonnais 1812-1885, Lyon, Maigin-Rusand, 1887, pp. 28-32; Emmanuelle Amiot-Saulnier, La peinture religieuse en France 1873-1879, Paris, Musée d'Orsay ed., 2007, pp. 64-65.