Louis Finson
Hermaphroditus and Salmacis
The Four Elements
David with the Head of Goliath
David and Bathsheba
Mary Magdalen in Ecstasy
Louis Finson (1580 or 1575–1617), also known as Ludovicus Finsonius, was a Flemish painter.[1]
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.
Finson, who enjoyed much success during his lifetime, primarily painted on religious themes; he produced a number of altarpieces. He also was an art dealer; he notably 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)
Adoration des rois mages (1614)
Church of St. Trophime
Arles
Lapidation de saint Étienne
Church of St. Trophime
Arles
La résurrection
Church of Saint-Jean-de-Malte
Aix-en-Provence
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.
External links
Self-portrait, Musée des beaux-arts de Marseille
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