Eustache Le Sueur (French, 1616–1655)
Meekness
INV-4715
Eustache Le Sueur (French, 1616–1655)1650
17th Centuryoil on paneloil paintings (visual works)
Date
1650
Medium
Oil on panel
Dimensions
100.7 × 67 cm (39 7/8 × 26 3/8 in.); Framed: 111.8 × 77.5 cm (44 × 30 1/2 in.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
Charles H. and Mary F. S. Worcester Collection
Eustache Le Sueur painted the eight Beatitudes, the ideal qualities Jesus identified in his Sermon on the Mount in the Bible, for the private chapel in his patron Guillaume Birssonnet’s Paris home. This personification of meekness was part of that decoration and accompanied an altarpiece of the Annunciation, monochrome scenes of the life of the Virgin Mary, and a ceiling depicting her Assumption. The Beatitudes, with their patterned gold ground, lined the lower story of this elegant ensemble. Only the Annunciation altarpiece and two of the Beatitudes survive.
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