id: 128842 accession number: 1951.454 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1951.454 updated: 2025-04-18 12:45:44.970000 Saint Peter Repentant, 1645. Georges de La Tour (French, 1593–1652). Oil on canvas; framed: 140.3 x 119.1 x 7 cm (55 1/4 x 46 7/8 x 2 3/4 in.); unframed: 114 x 95 cm (44 7/8 x 37 3/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the Hanna Fund 1951.454 title: Saint Peter Repentant title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1645 creation date earliest: 1645 creation date latest: 1645 current location: 217 Italian Baroque creditline: Gift of the Hanna Fund copyright: --- culture: France, 17th century technique: oil on canvas department: European Painting and Sculpture collection: P - French 17th Century type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Georges de La Tour (French, 1593–1652) - artist --- measurements: Framed: 140.3 x 119.1 x 7 cm (55 1/4 x 46 7/8 x 2 3/4 in.); Unframed: 114 x 95 cm (44 7/8 x 37 3/8 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: signed upper right: Georgs delaTour Invet et Pin / 1645 translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: In Memoriam: Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. opening date: 1958-03-04T05:00:00 In Memoriam: Leonard C. Hanna, Jr.. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 4-April 7, 1958). title: Georges de La Tour opening date: 1972-05-10T04:00:00 Georges de La Tour. Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris, France (organizer) (May 10-September 25, 1972). title: Georges de la Tour and His World: Masterpieces in Focus opening date: 1996-10-06T00:00:00 Georges de la Tour and His World: Masterpieces in Focus. National Gallery of Art (organizer) (October 6, 1996-January 5, 1997); Kimbell Art Museum (February 1-May 10, 1997). title: Georges de la Tour (1593-1652) opening date: 1997-10-01T00:00:00 Georges de la Tour (1593-1652). Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, Paris, France (October 1, 1997-January 26, 1998). title: The Light of Truth. Caravaggio, La Tour, Rembrandt, Zurbarán opening date: 2000-09-09T00:00:00 The Light of Truth. Caravaggio, La Tour, Rembrandt, Zurbarán. Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea Accademia Carrara di Bergamo, Bergamo, Italy (September 9-December 17, 2000). title: Georges de la Tour opening date: 2005-03-07T00:00:00 Georges de la Tour. National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan (organizer) (March 7-May 29, 2005). title: Masterpieces of European Painting from The Cleveland Museum of Art opening date: 2006-11-08T00:00:00 Masterpieces of European Painting from The Cleveland Museum of Art. Frick Collection, New York, NY (organizer) (November 8, 2006-January 28, 2007). title: Masterpieces of European Painting from the Cleveland Museum of Art opening date: 2007-03-29T00:00:00 Masterpieces of European Painting from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage, Beachwood, OH (March 29-July 8, 2007). title: Georges de la Tour opening date: 2016-02-23T00:00:00 Georges de la Tour. Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, Spain (organizer) (February 23-June 12, 2016). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': 'Caravaggio and His Followers. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio (October 29, 1971-January 2, 1972).', 'opening_date': '1971-10-29T00:00:00'} --- PROVENANCE Possibly Alleyn's College of God's Gift, Dulwich, Surrey, until 1857; date: footnotes: citations: Reverend William Lucas Chafy, until 1878, by inheritance to his heirs; date: footnotes: citations: Heirs of Reverend Chafy, Bath, Somerset, until May 1951; date: footnotes: citations: [Marshall Spink, London]; date: footnotes: citations: [M. Knoedler & Co., New York], sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1951. date: footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Cleveland Museum of Art. Paintings in the Cleveland Museum of Art. [Cleveland], 1945. page number: Reproduced: p. 32 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAPaintings1952 Bloch, Vitale. Georges de La Tour; een beschouwing over zijn werk voorafgegaan door een catalogus van zijn oeuvre. Amsterdam, Netherlands: J.H. de Bussy, 1950. page number: Reproduced: p. 53 url: Bloch, Vitale. Georges de La Tour; een beschouwing over zijn werk voorafgegaan door een catalogus van zijn oeuvre. Amsterdam: J.H. de Bussy, 1950. page number: Mentioned: P. 53, no. 18; reproduced: Pl. 18 url: Pariset, Francois-Georges. "Le Saint Pierre Repentant de Georges de la Tour." Arts-loisirs no. 304 (1951): 1, 4. page number: Mentioned: P. 1, 4; reproduced: P. 1 url: Sterling, Charles. "Observations sur Georges de la Tour à propos d'un Livre Recent." La Revue des Arts I (September 1951): 147-158. page number: Mentioned: P. 154; Reproduced: P. 153, fig. 7 url: Francis, Henry S. "The Retentant St. Peter by Georges de La Tour." The Bulletin of The Cleveland Museum of Art XXXIX, no. 7 (September, 1952): 174-177. page number: Reproduced: p. 170 url: "Accessions of American and Canadian Museums." The Art Quarterly (Winter 1952): 344-346. page number: Reproduced: P. 344 url: Pariset, François-Georges. "Mise Au Point - Provisoire - Sur Georges De La Tour." Cahiers De Bordeaux / Journées Internationales D'etudes D'art 2 (1955): 79-89. page number: Mentioned: P. 87 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 480 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n88 Milliken, William Mathewson. The Cleveland Museum of Art. New York: H.N. Abrams, 1958. page number: Reproduced: P. 38 url: Pariset, François-Georges. "La Servante á la Puce." Le Pays Lorrain 39, no. 3 (1958): 100-108. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 105-106 url: Grossmann, F. "A Painting by Georges De La Tour in the Collection of Archduke Leopold Wilhelm." The Burlington Magazine 100, no. 660 (March 1958): 86-91. page number: Mentioned: P. 90 url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/872408 Myers, Bernard S. Encyclopedia of World Art. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1959. page number: Mentioned: Vol. IX, P. 164 url: Bougier, Annette Marie. Georges de La Tour, Peintre du Roy. [Paris]: Desclée, De Brouwer, 1963. page number: Mentioned: P. 92-93 url: Casa de Velázquez (Madrid). Vélazquez, son temps, son influence Actes du colloque tenu a la Casa de Velázquez les 7, 9 et 10 décembre 1960. Paris: Arts et métiers graphiques, 1963. page number: Mentioned: P. 62; reproduced: Pl. XXXVIII url: Birren, Faber. History of Color in Painting, With New Principles of Color Expression. New York, NY: Reinhold Pub. Corp, 1965. page number: Reproduced: p. 247 url: Birren, Faber. History of Color in Painting, With New Principles of Color Expression. New York: Reinhold Pub. Corp, 1965. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 247 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. page number: Reproduced: p. 117 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n141 Wrightsman, Charles B., Jayne Wrightsman, F. J. B. Watson, Carl Christian Dauterman, and Everett Fahy. The Wrightsman Collection. [New York]: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1966. page number: Mentioned: Vol. 5, P. 134 url: Cavina, Anna Ottani. Georges de La Tour. Milano: Fratelli, Fabbri, 1966. page number: Mentioned: P. 4 url: “Fiftieth Anniversary for the Cleveland Museum of Art.” Art in America 54 (March 1966): 20–56. page number: Mentioned: P. 23; reproduced: P. 29 url: Alsop, Joseph. "Les Chef-d'Oeuvre de Première Importance du Second Musée des Etats-Unis." Connaissance des Arts 172 (June 1966): 55-63. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 57 url: Cleveland Museum of Art. Selected Works: Cleveland Museum of Art. 1967. page number: Reproduced: no. 155 url: Pariset, François-Georges. "L'Ermite à la Lanterne et Georges de La Tour." Cahiers Alsaciens d'Archéologie, d'Art et d'Histoire XI (1967): 241-246. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: P. 244-246 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. page number: Reproduced: p. 117 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n141 Wright, Christopher. "A Suggestion for Etienne De La Tour." The Burlington Magazine 111, no. 794 (May 1969): 295-97. page number: Mentioned: P. 296 url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/875939 Fricke, Berthold, ed. The Cleveland Museum of Art. Hannover: Knorr & Hirth, 1970. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: P. 46-47 url: Szigethi Ágnes. Georges de La Tour. [Budapest]: Corvina, 1971. page number: Reproduced: Fig. 44 url: Moussalli, Ulysse. A la recherche de Georges de La Tour. Paris, France: Grenier aux livres, 1972. page number: Reproduced: p. 66, 72; Mentioned: 75-76 url: Tanaka, Hidemichi. "Observations sur l'évolution stylistique de Georges de La Tour". In Evolution Générale Et Développements Régionaux En Histoire De L'Art. (1972): 45-50. page number: Mentioned: Vol. II, P. 45-47; Reproduced: Vol. III, Pl. 271, no. 13 url: Nicolson, Benedict and Christopher Wright. "Georges de La Tour et la Grande Bretagne." La Revue du Louvre et des Musées de France 22, no. 2 (1972): 135-142. page number: Mentioned: P. 135, 141, n. 1 url: Gállego, Julián. "Crónica de Paris: La Tour, Illuminado." Goya 109 (1972): 35-39. page number: Mentioned: P. 37 url: Cavini. "La Tour a l'Orangerie e il suo primo tempo Caravaggesco." Paragone: Mensile di Arte Figurativa e Letteratura XXIII, pt. 2, no. 273 (1972): 3-24. page number: Mentioned: P. 20, n. 17 url: Georges de La Tour. Paris, France: Réunion des musées nationaux, 1972. page number: Mentioned: pp. 40, 43, 51, 77, 108, 111-112, 188, 190-193, 261, 263. url: Held, Julius S. “Caravaggio and His Followers.” Art in America 60 (March 1972): 40–47. page number: Mentioned: P. 43; reproduced: P. 45 url: Blunt, Anthony. "Georges De La Tour at the Orangerie." The Burlington Magazine 114, no. 833 (August 1972): 516-25. page number: Mentioned: P. 520 url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/877063 Dauriac, Jacques Paul. "Zur Wiederentdeckung un Wüdigung von Georges de La Tour." Die Kunst (December 1972): 725-728. page number: Mentioned: P. 727 url: Brejon de Lavergnée, Arnauld, and Jean Pierre Cuzin. I Caravaggeschi francesi. Roma, Italy: De Luca, 1973. page number: Reproduced: p. 94 url: Rosenberg, Pierre and François Macé de Lépinay. Georges de La Tour, vie et œuvre. Fribourg, Switzerland : Office du livre, 1973. page number: Reproduced: p. 159 url: Solesmes, François. Georges de La Tour. (Lausanne, Switzerland: Éditions Clairefontaine, 1973. page number: Reproduced: p. 110, p. 162 url: Thuillier, Jacques. Tout l'Oeuvre Peint de Georges de La Tour. Paris: Flammarion, 1973. page number: Mentioned: P. 8, 95, no. 51; reproduced: P. 94, Pl. XL, XLVII url: Gállego, Julian. "Actualidad de Georges de La Tour." Goya 112 (1973): 200-207. page number: Mentioned: P. 206 url: Held, Julius S. “Emergence of Georges de La Tour.” Art in America 61 (April 1973): 82–87. page number: Reproduced: P. 86 url: Nicolson, Benedict, and Christopher Wright. Georges De La Tour. London, United Kingdom: Phaidon Press, 1974. page number: Mentioned: p. 13-15; Reproduced: fig. 96 url: Tribout de Morembert, Henri. "Considérations sur Georges de La Tour." Gazette des Beaux-Arts LXXXIII (April 1974): 227-234. page number: Mentioned: P. 227, 230 url: Roskill, Mark W. What Is Art History? New York, NY: Harper & Row, 1976. page number: Reproduced: p. 39 url: Spear, Richard E. "A New Book on La Tour." The Burlington Magazine 118, no. 877 (April 1976): 233-35. page number: Mentioned: P. 235 url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/878384 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. page number: Reproduced: p. 171 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n191 Nicolson, Benedict. The International Caravaggesque Movement: Lists of Pictures by Caravaggio and His Followers Throughout Europe from 1590 to 1650. Oxford, United Kingdom: Phaidon, 1979. page number: Reproduced: p. 65 url: Lurie, Ann Tzeutschler. "The Weeping Heraclitus by Hendrick Terbrugghen in the Cleveland Museum of Art." The Burlington Magazine 121, no. 914 (May 1979): 279-87. page number: Mentioned: P. 284, n. 31 url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/879582 The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Catalogue of Paintings, Part 3: European Paintings of the 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1982. page number: Mentioned: p. 90-91; Reproduced: p. 91 url: Rosenberg, Pierre. France in the Golden Age: Seventeenth-Century French Paintings in American Collections. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1982. page number: url: Brigstocke, Hugh. “France in the Golden Age {Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Exhibit}.” Apollo: The International Magazine for Collectors 116 (July 1982): 8–14. page number: Mentioned: P. 8 url: Wright, Christopher. The Art of the Forger. New York, NY: Dodd, Mead, 1985. page number: Mentioned: p. 12; Reproduced: p. 29 url: Adams, Steven. The Art of the Pre-Raphaelites. Secaucus, NJ: Chartwell Books, 1988. page number: Reproduced: p. 29 url: Quignard, Pascal, and Georges du Mesnil de La Tour. Georges de la Tour & Pascal Quignard. Paris, France: Flohic, 1991. page number: Mentioned: p. 55-56; Reproduced: p. 57 url: Lacau St. Guily, Agnès, and Georges du Mesnil de La Tour. La Tour, une lumière dans la nuit. Paris, France: Mame, 1992. page number: Reproduced: p. 90 url: Thuillier, Jacques. Georges de La Tour. Paris, France: Flammarion, 1992. page number: Reproduced: p. 201 url: Daniels, Stephen. Fields of Vision: Landscape Imagery and National Identity in England and the United States. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Polity, 1993. page number: Reproduced: p. 133, fig. 8 url: Conisbee, Philip. The Magdalene with the Smoking Flame. Washington, D.C.: Board of Trustees, National Gallery of Art, 1993. page number: Mentioned: P. 13-14 url: Russell, John. London. New York, NY: H.N. Abrams, 1994. page number: Reproduced: p. 46 url: Egri, Péter. Érték és képzelet: Shelley, Turner, Field és Chopin. Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1994. page number: Reproduced: P. 12, no. 6 url: Le Floch, Jean-Claude. La Tour: le clair et l'obscur. Paris, France: Herscher, 1995. page number: Mentioned: p. 58; Reproduced: p. 59 url: Le Floch, Jean-Claude. Le signe de contradiction: essai sur Georges de La Tour et son œuvre. Rennes, France: Presses universitaires de Rennes 2, 1995. page number: Reproduced: p. 23, no. 9 url: Quignard, Pascal. La Nuit et le Silence: Georges de La Tour. [France]: Flohic Editions, 1995. page number: Reproduced: P. 58 url: Conisbee, Philip. National Gallery of Art (U.S.), and Kimbell Art Museum. Georges De La Tour and His World. Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 1996. page number: Mentioned: p. 112; Reproduced: p. 113, 272 url: Duro, Paul. The Academy and the Limits of Painting in Seventeenth-Century France. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 1997. page number: url: Cuzin, Jean Pierre, and Dimitri Salmon. Georges de La Tour: histoire d'une redécouverte. Paris, France: Gallimard, 1997. page number: Reproduced: p. 69 url: Cuzin, Jean Pierre, Georges du Mesnil de La Tour, and Pierre Rosenberg. Georges de La Tour: Paris, Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, 3 octobre 1997-26 janvier 1998. Paris, France: Réunion des musées nationaux, 1997. page number: Reproduced: p. 225, 254; Mentioned: p. 224-225 url: Choné, Paulette. "Itinéraire d'un Peintre Lorrain." Connaissance des Arts, supp. issue #112 (1997): 30-49. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 38-39 url: Blunt, Anthony, and Richard Beresford. Art and Architecture in France, 1500-1700. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1999. page number: Reproduced: p. 178, no. 64 url: La Tour, Georges du Mesnil de, Pierre Rosenberg, and Bruno Ferté. Georges de la Tour. Paris, France: Gallimard, 1999. page number: Mentioned: p. 104-105 url: Armogathe, Jean Robert. La luce del vero: Caravaggio, La Tour, Rembrandt, Zurbarán. Cinisello Balsamo, Milan, Italy: Silvana, 2000. page number: Mentioned: p. 118-119 url: Seidel, Max. L'Europa e l'arte italiana. Venezia, Italy: Marsilio, 2000. page number: Reproduced: p. 354; detail, pp. 352, 355, 356 url: May, Sally Ruth, Jane Takac, and Barbara J. Bradley. Knockouts: A Pocket Guide. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2001. page number: Reproduced: p. 38; Mentioned: p. 117 url: Chone, Paulette, Jean-Claude Boyer, Richard E. Spear, and Irving Lavin. L'âge d'or du nocturne. Paris, France: Gallimard, 2001. page number: Reproduced: p. 186, fig. 108 url: Rosenberg, Pierre, and Jean-Pierre Caillet. La peinture française. Paris, France: Mengès, 2001. page number: Reproduced: p. 292 url: Varese, Ranieri. "Bilblioteca." Critica d'Arte 64, no. 12 (December 2001): 11. page number: Reproduced: P. 11 url: McClintock, Stuart, and Georges du Mesnil de La Tour. The Iconography and Iconology of Georges De La Tour's Religious Paintings, 1624-1650. Lewiston, NY.: Edwin Mellen Press, 2003. page number: Reproduced: fig. 18 url: Takahashi, Akiya, and Jean-Pierre Cuzin. Georges de La Tour: [exposition : 8 mars-29 mai, 2005, Le Musée national d'art occidental, Tokyo. Tokyo, Japan: National Museum of Western Art, 2005. page number: Reproduced: p. 98-99, fig. 22 url: Iacono, Margaret. Masterpieces of European Painting from the Cleveland Museum of Art. New York. New York: The Frick Collection, 2006. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p. 56-59 url: Cuzin, Jean-Pierre, Dominique Cordellier, Michel Laclotte, and Antoinette Le Normand-Romain. Figures de la réalité caravagesques français, Georges de La Tour, les frères Le Nain. Paris, France: Hazan, 2010. page number: Reproduced: p. 217, fig. 218 url: Merlini, Valeria, Daniela Storti, and Dimitri Salmon. Georges De La Tour in Milan: The Adoration of the Shepherds, Christ with Saint Joseph in the Carpenter's Shop. Milan, Italy: Skira, 2011. page number: Reproduced: fig. 53 url: Hilaire, Michel, Axel Hémery, and Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio. Corps et ombres: Caravage et le caravagisme européen. Milan, Italy: 5 continents, 2012. page number: Reproduced: p. 459, fig. 7 url: Treasures of the Cleveland Museum of Art. London, United Kingdom: Scala Books, 2012. page number: Mentioned: p. 198-199 url: Cleveland Museum of Art. The CMA Companion: A Guide to the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2014. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 186 url: Salmon, Dimitri, and Andrés Ubeda de los Cobos, eds. Georges De La Tour: 1593-1652. Madrid: Museo Nacional del Prado, 2016. page number: Reproduced: p.150-151, no. 27 url: Cuzin, Jean-Pierre, et. al. Le Saint Joseph Charpentier de Georges de la Tour: Un Don au Louvre de Percy Moore Turner. [Gent]: Snoeck, 2017. page number: Mentioned: p. 213, n. 2505 url: Judovitz, Dalia. Georges De La Tour and the Enigma of the Visible. New York: Fordham University Press, 2018. page number: Mentioned: p. 6-7; 10, 34-37; 43; Reproduced: Pl. 9 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1951.454/1951.454_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1951.454/1951.454_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1951.454/1951.454_full.tif