Des Maux, des musées, des mots Curating a Culture of Respect Notes ontheartworks emotions work at height: 1.28 m width: 1.29 m Paolo Caliari, called Veronese, MarriageofStCatherine The Mystic , 1560-1565

Emotions at Work - Notes on the Artworks Paolo Caliari called Veronese The Mystic Marriage of St Catherine 1560-1565 oil paint on canvas

the painter Catherine Jesus Mary

Veronese, a famous The kneeling woman is In the middle of the The Virgin Mary is in the Italian painter from the Catherine, the daughter painting is the child center of the painting, 16th century, was born of King Costus. She is Jesus. He is leaning holding Jesus on her in the city of Verona, known for her beauty trustingly toward knees. Her watchful and which is where he got and intelligence. She Catherine, while she kind presence envelops his name. This refined Joseph wears an elegant gold reaches out to him with the group. painting, bathed in and black brocade coat, tender arms, looking golden light, was and radiates youth. him straight in the eyes created by the brilliant to demonstrate her love On the right, Joseph is colorist more than 400 and pledge her loyalty. leaning on the baby’s years ago. crib. His reassuring gaze envelops the scene. height: 1.205 m width: 2.58 m Leonello Spada, Lamentation over Christ , before theDead 1615

Emotions at Work - Notes on the Artworks Leonello Spada Lamentation over the Dead Christ before 1615 oil paint on canvas the painter the painting Jesus Joseph Mary of Arimathea

Of modest origins, Spada This artwork is from Jesus is presented on an Joseph of Arimathea, a Jesus’ mother, Mary, her studied in before the beginning of the angle in the foreground. secret disciple of Jesus, eyes red from crying coming into contact with 17th century and was He rests on a large has received Pilate’s and with arms wide ’s powerful recently acquired by white shroud. His head permission to bury the open, is gently rushing naturalism, first in , the Musée Fabre in is bloody, and we can body. He is seen calmly toward her son’s body. then once again in order to complete its clearly see the injury on wiping his tears with a She is enormously sad, . The austerity of collection of classical his side. corner of the shroud. and tears run down her the colorful palette, the works. Depicted is the cheeks. realism of the details, and famous scene where the somber expression Jesus is mourned by his of the people in the friends and family after painting all speak to having been taken off the dramatic reality of the cross. losing a loved one. The simple composition of this painting is a sign of Caravaggio’s influence. height: 3.9 m width: 5.7m Antoine Coypel, Aeneas andAchates, circa Before Dido 1715-1717 Appearing

Emotions at Work - Notes on the Artworks Antoine Coypel Aeneas and Achates Appearing Before circa 1715-1717 oil paint on canvas

the painter the painting Dido Aeneas The joyful crowd

Antoine Coypel is a This very large painting Dido, the queen of Prince Aeneas appears A group of young very famous painter was created for one Carthage, beholds before Dido upon a women is seated at the born at the beginning of the Palais Royal Aeneas with cloud, proudly wearing foot of Queen Dido’s of the 18th century. He galleries, in Paris. It is astonishment. She his helmet. His ship has throne. They look upon lived in Paris, where he part of a series of six may display a quite sunk, and he is here, the scene unfolding worked most notably large paintings, only theatrical look of along with many other before them with joy for the Duke of Orléans, three of which can surprise, with arms Trojans seen in the and admiration. France’s ruler following be seen at the Musée outstretched, but deep painting, to ask for the Louis XIV. Fabre. The painting inside her heart she is queen’s hospitality. deals with the Trojan already very much prince Aeneas, whose in love… story was told in the first century B.C.E. by Virgil. height: 2.2 m width: 4.5m François-Xavier Fabre, andNeoptolemus Ulysses Taking Hercules’ Arrows from Philoctetes, 1800

Emotions at Work - Notes on the Artworks François-Xavier Fabre Ulysses and Neoptolemus Taking Hercules' Arrows from Philoctetes 1800 oil paint on canvas

the painter the painting

Fabre, a painter and This painting recounts a Ulysses Neoptolemus Philoctetes collector, was born in passage from a tragedy Montpellier in the 18th written by Sophocles Ulysses seems quite century – the Musée in 409 BCE. Ulysses Neoptolemus, in Philoctetes is an rigid, forceful and in Fabre bears his name. He and Neoptolemus find the center of the unfortunate, humiliated a hurry to regain the spent part of his career Philoctetes, who had composition, is in a and suffering hero. His ship. He is keen to in , first in Rome been abandoned on the tricky position: he is whole being speaks of return to battle with then in Florence, where island of Lemnos, and try torn between doing despair. We can see his Hercules’ arrows, which he worked for wealthy to convince him to lend his duty as a soldier material poverty. His will secure a win for the aristocrats. As we can them Hercules’ arrows, and helping out a poor, pleading gaze asks: how Greeks. see in this artwork, which would help them miserable man. He is an can he feed himself Fabre excelled at history win the Trojan War. The empathetic character. without his magical paintings. This one painting captures the weapons, if he is once was commissioned by most intense moment of again abandoned? Lord Bristol in 1799 and the confrontation, and completed in 5 months. everyone’s feelings are quite clearly depicted. height: 2.3 m width: 2.9m Raymond-Auguste-Quinsac Monvoisin, ofCharles IX,1834 The Death Raymond-Auguste-Quinsac

Emotions at Work - Notes on the Artworks Raymond-Auguste-Quinsac Monvoisin The Death of Charles 1834 oil paint on canvas

the painter the painting Catherine Charles Elisabeth de Medici the King of France of Austria

Monvoisin was a 19th The Death of Charles IX Catherine de Medici is Charles IX casts a To the King’s left is his century painter from is a beautiful example Charles IX’s mother, and terrorized glance at his wife, the young and Bordeaux and was of how paintings is renowned for being mother. He knows he is caring Elisabeth of 40 years old when depicting scenes from quite authoritative. She gravely ill, and he holds Austria. She is trying he paints The Death French history were had a very powerful in his left hand a letter to appease her visibly of Charles IX. Part of very successful in the influence throughout that he hesitates to give upset husband. A his career was spent early 19th century. her son’s reign, which her. This letter would compassionate tear in South America, was hard hit by religious hand over his royal spills out of her eye. where he became very wars between Catholics powers to the Queen famous. and Protestants. Mother. height: 2.65 m width: 4m The Death ofAbel. JosephRemond, The Death Historic LandscapeJean-Charles , 1838

Emotions at Work - Notes on the Artworks Jean-Charles Joseph Remond The Death of Abel Historic Landscape, 1838 oil paint on canvas

the painter the painting Cain Abel the storm

Rémond won the Rémond’s paintings Overtaken by a sudden Abel is lying on the The stormy sky is a Grand Prix de Rome, were very successful. and uncontrollable ground. Blood spills witness to the violent a prestigious French He was particularly rage, Cain has just from his forehead, emotions that overtake scholarship for artists, adept at depicting struck his brother. He showing how hard he Cain and lead him to in 1821. As a result, heroic landscapes on casts a terrified glance has been hit. His arms commit this irreversible he spent 5 years in very large canvasses. over his shoulder, are raised towards the act. Italy, during which Inspired by the Bible, suddenly aware of sky, begging for help. he worked on many here he paints the the crime he has drawings and sketches famous – and dreadful committed. that helped him create – quarrel between the works in the decades to brothers Cain and Abel come. height: 1.94 m width: 2.86 m Alexandre Cabanel, Phaedra ,1880

Emotions at Work - Notes on the Artworks Alexandre Cabanel Phaedra 1880 oil paint on canvas

the painter the painting Phaedra the sleeping the seated attendant attendant

Alexandre Cabanel Cabanel was at the Phaedra is devastated. Sitting at the foot of the The other young grew up in Montpellier peak of his career when She has just told her royal bed, one of her woman looks before leaving for Paris he painted this large attendants that she is attendants has either compassionately upon to study at the Ecole artwork depicting in love with Hippolytus, fallen asleep or fainted. Phaedra. Her hands, des beaux-arts. He a scene inspired by who, unfortunately, is She is exhausted from which are crossed on won the Grand Prix de mythology. He donated her husband Theseus’ the sorrow and worry her knee in an elegant Rome (a prestigious it to his hometown son…. and furthermore caused by the queen’s manner, speak to the French scholarship for museum as a token of does not have the same complicated situation. tension in the room. artists) and thus spent appreciation for the passionate feelings for The queen has not many years in Italy. His scholarship he had her. eaten or left her room academic paintings received as a young in three days… Tragedy were very successful man, which enabled is approaching. upon his return to the him to pursue artistic French capital. training in Paris. height: 1.39 m width: 2.02 m Fréderic Bazille, Ruth, circa andBoaz 1870

Emotions at Work - Notes on the Artworks Fréderic Bazille Ruth and Boaz circa 1870 oil paint on canvas the painter the painting

Frédéric Bazille This large-scale painting Boaz Ruth the moon is a painter from was made during Montpellier who was his last summer in After a long, hard day Ruth is lying calmly In the center of the active in the second half Montpellier. The theme of work – as indicated by his side and looks painting is a crescent of the 19th century. He comes from the Bible by the hay bales –, Boaz upon the “golden moon. Its soft light died quite young, but (Old Testament) and leans peacefully on his hook (…) on the field illuminates the during his short career refers to a poem written left arm and falls asleep of stars.” Her dreamy scene below with a he resided in Paris, by Victor Hugo that was under the blue cedar. air suggests that her mysterious and poetic where he lived, worked published a decade thoughts are flowing glow… and befriended Monet, prior. Bazille died on freely in the intimacy of Sisley and Renoir. the battlefield, and the dark blue nocturnal He returned often to therefore the nocturnal landscape. Montpellier for holidays, landscape, which holds where he painted the two characters like the landscapes of his a jewelry box, remains hometown or other unfinished. scenes of family life. Finding the artworks

A location map is available at the museum’s entrance. If some works are temporarily out on loan, their absence will be announced on the Musée Fabre’s website. room no. 9 Paolo Caliari, called Veronese, room no. 11 The Mystic Marriage of St Catherine, Leonello Spada, 1560-1565 Lamentation over the Dead Christ, before 1615

room no. 18 room no. 18 room no. 30 Antoine Coypel, François-Xavier Fabre, Raymond-Auguste-Quinsac Monvoisin, Aeneas and Achates Appearing Before Dido, Ulysses and Neoptolemus Taking The Death of Charles IX, circa 1715-1717 Hercules’ Arrows from Philoctetes, 1800 1834 © musée Fabre, Montpellier Méditerranée Métropole, clichés F. Jaulmes clichés F. Montpellier Métropole, Méditerranée © musée Fabre,

room no. 30 room no. 35 room no. 39 Jean-Charles Joseph Remond, Alexandre Cabanel, Fréderic Bazille, The Death of Abel. Historic Landscape, Phaedra, Ruth and Boaz, 1838 1880 circa 1870