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A Portuguese Renaissance painting for the Louvre
23/10/23 - Acquisition - Paris, Musée du Louvre - A year ago, the Louvre organised a small but magnificent exhibition devoted to the Portuguese Renaissance (see article). We explained that many works had been lost in the Lisbon earthquake of 1755, and that France had only one Lusitanian painting from this period, in a church in the Ardèche.
- 1. Cristóvão de Figueiredo (c. 1490-c. 1555) and Garcia Fernandes (c. 1514-c. 1565)
The Resurrection of Christ, c. 1530-1535
Oil on panel - 120 x 59 cm
Paris, Musée du Louvre
Photo: Philippe Mendes Gallery - See the image in its page
We can therefore only congratulate the Louvre on the superb purchase it has just made from the Parisian (but also Portuguese) dealer Philippe Mendes [1]. The latter presented the work at the 2023…