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accession number: 1951.454
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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
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creation date: 1645
creation date earliest: 1645
creation date latest: 1645
current location: 217 Italian Baroque
creditline: Gift of the Hanna Fund
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culture: France, 17th century
technique: oil on canvas
department: European Painting and Sculpture
collection: P - French 17th Century
type: Painting
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CREATORS
* Georges de La Tour (French, 1593-1652) - artist
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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.)
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inscription: signed upper right: Georgs delaTour Invet et Pin / 1645
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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 (March 4-April 7, 1958).
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, Washington, DC (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 (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 (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 (organizer) (November 8, 2006-January 28, 2007).
title: Georges de la Tour
opening date: 2016-02-23T00:00:00
Georges de la Tour. Museo Nacional del Prado (organizer) (February 23-June 12, 2016).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* Columbus, OH, Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts, november 8-December 16, 1956: "Masterpieces," cat. # 21.
CMA, October 29, 1971-January 2, 1972: "Caravaggio and His Followers," cat. # 39, repr. p. 119.
Paris, Orangerie des Tuileries, Palais du Louvre, May-September 1972: "Georges de La Tour,' ct. #23, pp. 40, 43, 51, 77, 108, 111-112, 188, 190-193, 261, 263.
New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, May 26-August 22, 1982: "French Painting in the 17th century," cat. #. Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago, September 18-November 28, 1982.
Washington, DC, The National Gallery of Art; Fort Worth, TX Kimbell Art Museum. "Georges de La Tour and His World" 10/6/96 - 5/10/97 exhib. cat. no. 24 p. 112; color repr. p. 113, p. 272.
Paris: Galeries nationales du Grand Palais. "Georges de la Tour (1593-1652)" 10/1/97 - 1/26/98; exh. cat. no. 47, color repr. p. 225, pp. 224-225, detail fig. 68, p. 225; fig. 82, p. 254.
Bergamo, Italy: Galleria d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea (organized by Accademia Carrara di Belle Arti/Associazione Giubileo 2000-Bergamo/Diocesi di Bergamo) "The Light of Truth. Caravaggio, La Tour, Rembrandt, Zurbarán [La Luce del Vero. Caravaggio, La Tour, Rembrandt, Zurbarán)" 9/9 - 12/17/00
National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo (3/7/2005 - 5/29/2005): "Georges de la Tour" ex. cat. no. 22, p. 98-99.
The Frick Collection (November 8, 2006 - January 28, 2007): "Masterpieces of European Painting from The Cleveland Museum of Art", exh. cat. no. 11, p. 56-59.
Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage (March 29, 2007 - July 8, 2007): "Masterpieces of European Painting from the Cleveland Museum of Art"
Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, Spain (2/23/201 - 6/12/2016): "Georges de la Tour" ex. cat. no. 27, p. 150-151.
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PROVENANCE
Possibly Alleyn's College of God's Gift, Dulwich, Surrey, until 1857;
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Reverend William Lucas Chafy, until 1878, by inheritance to his heirs;
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Heirs of Reverend Chafy, Bath, Somerset, until May 1951;
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[Marshall Spink, London];
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[M. Knoedler & Co., New York], sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1951.
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fun fact:
The rooster next to Peter is a reference to Jesus's prediction that Peter will betray him, stating: "Before the rooster crows, you will disown me three times."
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During Jesus’s arrest on the night of the Last Supper, the apostle Peter denied knowing him. Although Christ forgave his betrayal, Peter was consumed by guilt. La Tour represents Peter as an old man, reflecting on his past actions in a state of perpetual repentance. The apostle’s red-rimmed eyes and the uncertain light of the lantern suggest anxious sleepless nights; muted colors and simple forms give visual expression to Peter’s somber emotions. Unlike other artists inspired by Caravaggio, La Tour worked in relative isolation in northeastern France, and his connection to his Italian counterpart remains unclear.
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
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
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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
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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
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
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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
Cleveland Museum of Art. Selected Works: Cleveland Museum of Art. 1967.
page number: Reproduced: no. 155
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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
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
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Brejon de Lavergnée, Arnauld, and Jean Pierre Cuzin. I Caravaggeschi francesi. Roma, Italy: De Luca, 1973.
page number: Reproduced: p. 94
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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
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Solesmes, François. Georges de La Tour. (Lausanne, Switzerland: Éditions Clairefontaine, 1973.
page number: Reproduced: p. 110, p. 162
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Nicolson, Benedict, and Christopher Wright. Georges De La Tour. London, United Kingdom: Phaidon Press, 1974.
page number: Mentioned: p. 13-15; Reproduced: fig. 96
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Roskill, Mark W. What Is Art History? New York, NY: Harper & Row, 1976.
page number: Reproduced: p. 39
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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
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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
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Wright, Christopher. The Art of the Forger. New York, NY: Dodd, Mead, 1985.
page number: Mentioned: p. 12; Reproduced: p. 29
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Adams, Steven. The Art of the Pre-Raphaelites. Secaucus, NJ: Chartwell Books, 1988.
page number: Reproduced: p. 29
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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
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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
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Thuillier, Jacques. Georges de La Tour. Paris, France: Flammarion, 1992.
page number: Reproduced: p. 201
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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
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Russell, John. London. New York, NY: H.N. Abrams, 1994.
page number: Reproduced: p. 46
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Le Floch, Jean-Claude. La Tour: le clair et l'obscur. Paris, France: Herscher, 1995.
page number: Mentioned: p. 58; Reproduced: p. 59
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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
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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
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Duro, Paul. The Academy and the Limits of Painting in Seventeenth-Century France. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 1997.
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Cuzin, Jean Pierre, and Dimitri Salmon. Georges de La Tour: histoire d'une redécouverte. Paris, France: Gallimard, 1997.
page number: Reproduced: p. 69
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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; Mentioned: p. 224-225
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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
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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
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Armogathe, Jean Robert. La luce del vero: Caravaggio, La Tour, Rembrandt, Zurbarán. Cinisello Balsamo, Milan, Italy: Silvana, 2000.
page number: Mentioned: p. 118-119
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Seidel, Max. L'Europa e l'arte italiana. Venezia, Italy: Marsilio, 2000.
page number: Reproduced: p. 354; detail, pp. 352, 355, 356
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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
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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
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Rosenberg, Pierre, and Jean-Pierre Caillet. La peinture française. Paris, France: Mengès, 2001.
page number: Reproduced: p. 292
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Treasures of the Cleveland Museum of Art. London, United Kingdom: Scala Books, 2012.
page number: Mentioned: p. 198-199
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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
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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
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