{"arkId":"cl010062000","url":"https:\/\/collections.louvre.fr\/ark:\/53355\/cl010062000","modified ":"2026-05-12","title":"La Charit\u00e9","titleComplement":"","denominationTitle":[{"type":"Titre","value":"La Charit\u00e9"},{"type":"Ancien titre","value":"La Foi"},{"type":"Autre titre","value":"All\u00e9gorie de la Charit\u00e9"}],"displayDateCreated":"Date de cr\u00e9ation\/fabrication : 2e quart du XVIIe si\u00e8cle (vers 1635)","currentLocation":"Richelieu, [Peint] Salle 828 - Les peintres de Louis XIII, roi de France de 1610 \u00e0 1643","room":"Salle 828, Aile Aile Richelieu, Niveau 2","isMuseesNationauxRecuperation":false,"dateCreated":[{"startYear":1635,"endYear":"","imprecision":"vers","text":"2e quart du XVIIe si\u00e8cle","type":"Date de cr\u00e9ation\/fabrication","doubt":""}],"creator":[{"label":"Vouet, Simon","attributionLevel":"Attribution actuelle","linkType":"","dates":[{"date":"1649","place":"Paris","type":"date de mort"},{"date":"1590","place":"Paris","type":"date de naissance"}],"creatorRole":"","authenticationType":"","doubt":"","attributedBy":"","attributedYear":"","wikidata":"Q317920"},{"label":"France","attributionLevel":"Attribution actuelle","linkType":"\u00c9cole de","creatorRole":"","authenticationType":"","doubt":"","attributedBy":"","attributedYear":"","wikidata":""}],"objectNumber":[{"value":"INV 8498","type":"Num\u00e9ro principal"},{"value":"MR 2714","type":"Autre num\u00e9ro d\u0027inventaire"}],"collection":"D\u00e9partement des Peintures","printsDrawingsEntity":"","printsDrawingsCollection":"","objectType":"","originalObject":"","printState":"","description":"Source de repr\u00e9sentation : Ripa \u0022Iconologia\u0022","inscriptions":"","namesAndTitles":"","onomastics":"","dimension":[{"type":"Hauteur","value":"1,92","displayDimension":"1,92 m","unit":"m","anteriorPrecision":"","posteriorPrecision":"","tri":1,"note":""},{"type":"Largeur","value":"1,32","displayDimension":"1,32 m","unit":"m","anteriorPrecision":"","posteriorPrecision":"","tri":3,"note":""}],"shape":"","materialsAndTechniques":"huile sur toile","placeOfCreation":"","dateOfDiscovery":"","placeOfDiscovery":"","provenance":"","historicalContext":[],"objectHistory":"Historique:\r\nCh\u00e2teau-neuf de Saint-Germain-en-Laye, 1706, 1709, 1788 (cf. Engerand, 1899 ; Bruel, 1902) ; saisi \u00e0 la R\u00e9volution, 1792 ; au mus\u00e9e sp\u00e9cial de l\u2019\u00c9cole fran\u00e7aise au ch\u00e2teau de Versailles, vers 1799 (A.M.N., 35 DD 1, fol. 5) ; transf\u00e9r\u00e9 au Louvre entre 1822 et 1824\r\n\r\nCommentaire:\r\nLe tableau a \u00e9t\u00e9 peint pour le d\u00e9cor du ch\u00e2teauneuf de Saint-Germain-en-Laye tout comme deux autres all\u00e9gories : voir INV. 8499 et INV. 8500. Dans les inventaires anciens, l\u2019oeuvre \u00e9tait connue comme une all\u00e9gorie de la \u00ab Victoire assise tenant de la main droite un coeur et de la gauche une palme, et un amour qui lui met une couronne de laurier sur la t\u00eate \u00bb (cf. Engerand, 1899). L\u2019all\u00e9gorie a ensuite \u00e9t\u00e9 identifi\u00e9e comme la Foi (cf. Bruel, 1902 ; Crelly, 1962). D\u2019apr\u00e8s l\u2019Iconologia de Cesare Ripa et l\u2019\u00e9dition fran\u00e7aise de Jean Baudoin, il s\u2019agit de la Charit\u00e9, \u00ab femme qui tient d\u2019une main un coeur embras\u00e9 [\u2026] le feu signifie l\u2019ardeur de son z\u00e8le qui ne  \u2019\u00e9teint jamais en elle \u00bb (cf. Baudoin, 1643, p. 114). Le tableau du Louvre a \u00e9t\u00e9 rentoil\u00e9 par Raymond Lepage en 1965. Les probl\u00e8mes de soul\u00e8vement de la couche picturale persistant, l\u2019oeuvre a \u00e9t\u00e9 transpos\u00e9e de toile sur toile par Raymond Lepage en 1966 (N. 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