Claude Guy Hallé · ca. 1681
The Restoration of the Catholic Religion in Strasbourg
Posters from $15 · Canvas from $39
Public-domain work from the Metropolitan Museum of Art's open access collection.
Up to 16 × 14 in · landscape
Size
Larger sizes are unavailable for this painting because the source scan's resolution wouldn't print at gallery quality.
Format & finish
Archival cotton canvas stretched over a wooden frame. Ready to hang as-is. No external frame.
Scale next to a 5'10" person
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The story of The Restoration of the Catholic Religion in Strasbourg
Claude Guy Hallé painted this allegorical history canvas to commemorate the 1681 reannexation of Strasbourg by Louis XIV and the city's forcible return to Catholic worship after a century and a half as a Lutheran free imperial city. The painting hung in the Hôtel de Ville as French royal propaganda, mixing personified Religion, Strasbourg, and the Sun King's heralds in the elaborate Baroque-allegorical style of the late Académie. A curious historical document and a beautiful example of late-17th-century French ceremonial painting.
Claude Guy Hallé
Claude-Guy Hallé was a French painter, draughtsman, and illustrator.
All Claude Guy Hallé prints →Biography adapted from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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