Louis Finson
Louis Finson (1580 or 1575–1617), also known as Ludovicus Finsonius, was a Flemish Baroque painter, who also worked in France.[1] Finson, who enjoyed much success during his lifetime, primarily painted on religious themes; he produced a number of altarpieces, and also several paintings of dramatic moments from the Old Testament.
Biography
Finson was born in Bruges. His father, Jacques Finson, was a painter.
He first visited Italy,[2] where he became one of the first Flemish Caravaggisti, then Spain and France, especially Provence. Martin Hermann Faber, a German painter and an imitator, joined him there. (Marseille, Aix and Arles). A number of his paintings are still to be found in Provence, for example three in the famous Romanesque Church of St. Trophime, Arles.
He also was an art dealer; notably he owned two paintings by Caravaggio, one of them being the Madonna of the Rosary, now in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna.
Finson died in Amsterdam in 1617.[3]
Gallery
- Paintings by Louis Finson
La résurrection de Lazare (1613)
Church of Saint-Mathieu
Château-Gombert (Marseille)
Lapidation de saint Étienne
Church of St. Trophime
Arles
Gaspard du Laurens en roi Gaspard
Church of St. Trophime
Arles
References
- ↑ Oxford Grove Art; see http://www.answers.com/topic/louis-finson-1
- ↑ http://balat.kikirpa.be/Detail_notice.php?id=2291
- ↑ Montias, John Michael (2002). Art at Auction in 17th Century Amsterdam. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press. p. 144. ISBN 9789053565919.
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