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Louis Galloche
Saint Martin Kneeling in Front of an Eremitic Monkcirca 1737

Not on view
Oil painting, two robed figures facing each other in a rocky landscape, one kneeling in white monastic robes, the other in red drapery, with horses and a third figure on rocky cliffs behind them

Louis Galloche, Saint Martin Kneeling in Front of an Eremitic Monk, 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 Kneeling in Front of an Eremitic Monk
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 × 1 3/4 in. (48.26 × 33.02 × 4.45 cm)
Credit Line
The Ciechanowiecki Collection, Gift of The Ahmanson Foundation
Accession Number
M.2000.179.8
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.