File:Gérôme Eminence grise 1873.jpg

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L'Éminence Grise (Grey Eminence), François Leclerc du Tremblay (1577–1638), the right-hand man of Cardinal Richelieu, depicted descending the staircase (1873). Oil on canvas, 68.6 x 101 cm (27 x 39.7 in). Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts

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Jean-Léon Gérôme: L'Eminence Grise  wikidata:Q20540727 reasonator:Q20540727
Artist
Jean-Léon Gérôme  (1824–1904)  wikidata:Q212499
 
Jean-Léon Gérôme
Description French painter, drawer and sculptor
Date of birth/death 11 May 1824 Edit this at Wikidata 10 January 1904 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Vesoul Edit this at Wikidata 9th arrondissement of Paris Edit this at Wikidata
Work location
Paris; Algeria; Greece; Florence; Rome; Constantinople Edit this at Wikidata
Authority file
artist QS:P170,Q212499
image of artwork listed in title parameter on this page
Title
Éminence Grise
Object type painting Edit this at Wikidata
Genre genre art Edit this at Wikidata
Description
English: Grey Eminence, François Leclerc du Tremblay (1577–1638), the right-hand man of Cardinal Richelieu
Date 1873
date QS:P571,+1873-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium oil on canvas
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259
Dimensions height: 68.6 cm (27 in); width: 101 cm (39.7 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,68.6U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,101U174728
institution QS:P195,Q49133
Accession number
03.605
Exhibition history
Credit line Bequest of Susan Cornelia Warren
Notes
English: The scene is anachronistic: Tremblay died in 1638, but the Palais-Royal staircase depicted (in a somewhat modified form) was not constructed until c. 1765, to the designs of Pierre Contant d'Ivry.
References
Source/Photographer Scan from the original work : Richelieu: Art and Power, 2002 exhibition catalog, edited by Hilliard Todd Goldfarb, p. 381. Montreal : Montreal Museum of Fine Arts ; Cologne : Wallraf-Richartz-Museum – Fondation Corboud ; Ghent, Belgium : Snoeck-Ducaju & Zoon. ISBN 9789053494073.

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