Bartholomeus Pons, pseudo-Félix Chrétien
Illustration — Moses and Aaron before Pharaoh, 1537, New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bartholomeus Pons (also known as Félix Chrétien, Pseudo Félix Chrétien or the Master of Dinteville) was a painter born in Haarlem, active from 1518 to 1541 in Burgundy and Champagne.
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Bartholomeus Pons, pseudo-Félix Chrétien

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- Kingdom of the Netherlands · France
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• Triptych of Saint Eugenia, 1535, Varzy, église Saint-Pierre-ès-Liens • Processional banners: Saint Stephen and Saint Amator and Saint Germanus and the Madonna and Child, 1536, Paris, musée des Arts décoratifs • The Dinteville Brothers and Moses and Aaron before Pharaoh, 1537, New-York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art • Portrait of Jean de Langeac, 1539, New.York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art • Joseph's Dream and Jesus Among the Doctors, grisaille, 1541, Troyes, musée de Vauluisant • Portrait of a Man, Paris, musée du Louvre
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• Descent into the Cave, 1537, Francfort, Städel Museum • Scene from the Life of Saint Severus, private collection • Stained glass at Saint-Julien-du-Sault and Chatillon-sur-Seine
Bibliography (in French)
• Camille Larraz, « Le portrait de Jean de Langeac, évêque de Limoges: une œuvre du Maître de Dinteville? », Bibliothèque d'Humanisme et Renaissance, t.LXXIX, no. 3, 2017,. • Frédéric Elsig, « Le Maître de Dinteville et le vitrail », dans Frédéric Elsig (ed.), Peindre à Dijon au XVI siecle, Milan, Silvana Editoriale, coll. Biblioteca d’arte, 54, 2016, p.205-213. • Cécile Scailliérez, « Un peintre haarlémois à Troyes: Bartholomeus Pons », dans Elsig, Frédéric (ed.), Peindre à Troyes au XVI siecle, Milan, Silvana Editoriale (coll. Biblioteca d'arte), 2015, p.131-143. • Stéphanie Deprouw-Augustin, « Deux œuvres inédites du Maître de Dinteville (Bartholomeus Pons?): les bannières des Arts décoratifs », dans Elsig, Frédéric (ed.), Peindre en France à la Renaissance. I, Les courants stylistiques au temps de Louis XII et de François Ier, Milan, Silvana Editoriale (coll. Biblioteca d'arte), 2011,. • Elizabeth A.R. Brown, « The Dinteville Family and the Allegory of Moses and Aaron before Pharaoh », dans Metropolitan Museum Journal, 34, 1999, p.73-100. • Josua Bruyn, « Over de betekenis van het werk van Jan van Scorel omstreeks 1530 voor oudere en jongere tijdgenoten, IV. De Pseudo-Félix Chrétien: een Haarlemse schilder (Bartholomeus Pons?) bij de bisschop van Auxerre », dans Oud Holland, 98, 1984, p.98-110. • Andrée Jouan, « École Hollandaise, Pseudo Félix Chrestien. Retable de sainte Eugénie, panneau central, Église de Varzy », dans Bulletin du Laboratoire du Musée du Louvre, 10, 1965, p.60-63. • Jacques Thuillier, « Études sur le cercle des Dinteville. I. L’énigme de Félix Chrestien », dans Art de France, I, 1961, p.55-75. • Mary F. S. Hervey et Robert Martin-Holland, « A forgotten French painter: Felix Chretien », dans The Burlington Magazine, XIX, 1911, p.48-55.
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