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Louis Galloche
Saint Martin Sharing his Coat with a Beggarcirca 1737

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Oil painting of an armored warrior on a rearing white horse, sword raised, confronted by a kneeling bare-chested figure beneath a stone archway, in warm browns and crimson

Louis Galloche, Saint Martin Sharing his Coat with a Beggar, circa 1737, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Ciechanowiecki Collection, Gift of The Ahmanson Foundation, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
Louis Galloche
France, Paris, 1670-1761
Title
Saint Martin Sharing his Coat with a Beggar
Place Made
France
Date Made
circa 1737
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
Canvas: 15 5/8 × 10 3/8 in. (39.69 × 26.35 cm) Frame: 19 × 13 × 3/4 in. (48.26 × 33.02 × 1.91 cm)
Credit Line
The Ciechanowiecki Collection, Gift of The Ahmanson Foundation
Accession Number
M.2000.179.7
Classification
Paintings
Collecting Area
European Painting and Sculpture
Provenance

[Galerie Joseph Hahn, Paris, by 1972]. Andrew S. Ciechanowiecki (1924–2015), London, by 1972, sold 2000 to; LACMA.

Selected Bibliography
  • Marandel, J. Patrice. French oil sketches from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 17th century - 19th century. Los Angeles: The Ahmanson Foundation, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2002.
  • Walch, Peter, , Joanna R. Barnes, J. Patrice Marandel. French Oil Sketches and the Academic Tradition. New York : American Federation of Arts in association with the University of Pennsylvania Press, 1994.
  • Marandel, J. Patrice. French Oil Sketches from an English Collection, Seventeenth, Eighteenth, and Nineteenth Centuries 1973-1975. Houston, TX: The Museum of Fine Arts, 1975.
  • Lehmbeck, Leah, editor. Gifts of European Art from The Ahmanson Foundation. Vol. 2, French Painting and Sculpture. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2019.