| Abstrakt: |
Between 1596 and 1611, the painter Nicolas de Hoey completed three major decorative cycles, the Psyche chamber, then the antechamber of the Caesars, and finally the Judith chamber, commissioned by Charles-Henry de Clermont-Tonnerre. This latter who had inherited the chateau when his grandfather, Antoine de Clermont died in 1579, did not begin the work in his residence until his marriage with Catherine-Marie d'Escoubleau. He called upon this painter of Flemish origin, who was established in Dijon and who enjoyed a certain renown for having participated, with his brother Jean d'Hoey, in the decoration carried out under the direction of Ambroise Dubois in the Diane Gallery in Fontainebleau. His intervention on the royal construction site and his "knowledge of the work at Fontainebleau is evident in the paintings in Ancy-le-Franc . In this way, the terms which accentuate the angles of the Psyche chamber are reminiscent of the dispositions of the king's chamber in Fontainebleau. In the antechamber of the Caesars, the representation of Mars in a medallion situated on the vaulting takes up the Neptune of the Diane gallery of the royal chateau. Finally the cycle retracing the history of Judith depends largely on two major decorative cycles painted by Ambroise Dubois: the cabinet of Théagène et Chariclée and that of Tancrède et Clorinde. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
