The Martyrdom of Saint Januarius

Artist François de Nomé, called Monsù Desiderio South Netherlandish, French, Italian, b. Metz 1593–d. after 1644 Naples

Date1622

MediumOil on canvas

Dimensions30 x 40 in. (76.2 x 101.6 cm)
Frame: 39 1/2 x 49 3/4 in. (100.3 x 126.4 cm)

ClassificationsPaintings

Credit LinePurchased with funds from the State of North Carolina

Object number52.9.213

On View

Not on view

ProvenanceWith Julius Weitzner, London and New York; sold to NCMA, 1952. Published ReferencesW. R. Valentiner, Catalogue of Paintings: Including Three Sets of Tapestries (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1956), no. 183, illus. (b-w).

Justus Bier, "The Enigma of Monsu Desiderio," North Carolina Museum of Art Calendar of Art Events 4, no. 11 (August-September 1961), discussed and illus. (b-w) unnumbered page.

Felix Sluys, Monsu Desiderio: Didier Barra et François de Nomé dits Monsu Desiderio (Paris: Minotaure, 1961), 39, 85, illus.

Images of Destruction (exhibition catalogue) (New York: Queens College, City University of New York, 1963), cat. no. 2, illus.

Out of This World: An Exhibition of Fantastic Landscapes from the Renaissance to the Present (exhibition catalogue) (Houston: University of St. Thomas, 1964), cat. no. 9.

Pierre Rosenberg, France in the Golden Age: Seventeenth-Century Paintings in American Collections (exhibition catalogue) (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1982), 379, illus. 367, fig. 12. (Catalogue only, our painting not in exhibition).

Edgar Peters Bowron, ed., Introduction to the Collections (Chapel Hill: published for the North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, by The University of North Carolina Press, 1983), illus. (b-w) 144.

Christopher Wright, The French Painters of the Seventeenth Century (London: Orbis, 1985), 176.

François de Nomé: Mysteries of a Seventeenth-Century Neapolitan Painter (exhibition catalogue) (Houston: The Menil Collection, 1991), cat. no. 1, illus.

Michel Onfray, Metaphysique des Ruines: La Peinture de Monsu Desiderio (Bordeaux: Mollat, 1995), illus. (color detail) 16.

Monsu Desiderio (exhibition catalogue) (Woippy: Published by Éditions Serpenoise for Musées de la Cour d'Or, Metz, 2004), discussed 108, illus. (color) 108-09.
Exhibition HistoryNew York, NY, Queens College, City University of New York, "Images of Destruction," December 6, 1963-January 4, 1964, cat. no. 2, illus.

Houston, TX, University of St. Thomas, Fine Arts Gallery, "Out of This World: An Exhibition of Fantastic Landscapes from the Renaissance to the Present," March 20-April 20, 1964, cat. no. 9.

Houston, TX, The Menil Foundation, The Menil Collection, "François de Nomé: Mysteries of a Seventeenth-Century Neapolitan Painter," October 18, 1991-January 12, 1992, cat. no. 1, illus.

Metz, France, Musées de la Cour d'Or, "Monsu Desiderio," October 30, 2004-February 28, 2005, discussed 108, illus. (color) 108-09. Object Rights Statement

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