François-Marius Granet
The Choir of the Capuchin Church in Rome
1814-15196.9 x 148 cm
Oil on canvas
Signed, dated, and inscribed: (lower right) GRANET / 1815; (center right, on doorframe): F.A.BARRI
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Gift of P.L. Everard, 1880
Literature
Collection catalogues
introduction by Gary Tinterow, Masterpieces of European Painting, 1800-1920, in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; New Haven, 2007, nr. 16
Provenance
Queen Caroline Murat, Naples, in 1814 or early 1815, completed for her but ceded by her, without taking possession, to Bonaparte
her brother, Louis Bonaparte, comte de Saint-Leu, Paris, by early 1815–died 1846
his son, Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte, later Napoléon III, by 1846–at least 1851, consigned to Christie's, London, 21 June 1851, nr. 84, but withdrawn prior to sale
Prosper Leopold Everard, Paris, until 1880
Other works by François-Marius Granet
Man Reading at a Window
c. 1799-1800 or 1825
c. 1799-1800 or 1825
Ponte San Rocco and Waterfalls, Tivoli
c. 1810-20
c. 1810-20
Santissima Trinita dei Monti and the Villa Medici in Rome
1808
1808
View of the Capuchin Monastery Choir on the Piazza Barberini, Rome
1818
1818
Digne from Saint-Lazare