{"arkId":"cl010073282","url":"https:\/\/collections.louvre.fr\/ark:\/53355\/cl010073282","modified ":"2025-08-25","title":"Christophe Colomb devant le conseil de Salamanque","titleComplement":"","denominationTitle":[{"type":"Titre","value":"Christophe Colomb devant le conseil de Salamanque"}],"displayDateCreated":"Date de cr\u00e9ation\/fabrication : 2e quart du XIXe si\u00e8cle (1841)","currentLocation":"non expos\u00e9","room":"","isMuseesNationauxRecuperation":false,"dateCreated":[{"startYear":1841,"endYear":"","imprecision":"","text":"2e quart du XIXe si\u00e8cle","type":"Date de cr\u00e9ation\/fabrication","doubt":""}],"creator":[{"label":"Leutze, Emanuel","attributionLevel":"Attribution actuelle","linkType":"","dates":[{"date":"1816","place":"","type":"date de naissance"},{"date":"1869","place":"","type":"date de mort"}],"creatorRole":"","authenticationType":"","doubt":"","attributedBy":"","attributedYear":"","wikidata":"Q452321"},{"label":"Etats-Unis","attributionLevel":"Attribution actuelle","linkType":"\u00c9cole de","creatorRole":"","authenticationType":"","doubt":"","attributedBy":"","attributedYear":"","wikidata":""}],"objectNumber":[{"value":"RF 2012 2","type":"Num\u00e9ro principal"}],"collection":"D\u00e9partement des Peintures","printsDrawingsEntity":"","printsDrawingsCollection":"","objectType":"","originalObject":"","printState":"","description":"Quoique n\u00e9 en Allemagne, Leutze se rattache \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e9cole am\u00e9ricaine (sa famille \u00e9migra aux \u00c9tats- Unis en 1825, alors qu\u2019il avait neuf ans) ; il re\u00e7ut sa premi\u00e8re \u00e9ducation artistique \u00e0 Philadelphie, la paracheva \u00e0 D\u00fcsseldorf en 1841, puis mena une brillante carri\u00e8re de peintre d\u2019histoire et de portraitiste aux \u00c9tats-Unis.Le R.F. 2012-2 a \u00e9t\u00e9 identifi\u00e9 \u00e0 son apparition en vente publique en 2011 (cf. Barbara Groseclose et Graham Boettcher), comme le tableau peint par Leutze en 1841, peu apr\u00e8s l\u2019arriv\u00e9e du peintre \u00e0 D\u00fcsseldorf. L\u2019\u0153uvre fut alors remarqu\u00e9e par le directeur de l\u2019Acad\u00e9mie, Wilhelm von Schadow (cf. Tuckerman), qui admit Leutze dans son Acad\u00e9mie (cf. Gaehtgens).\r\nSujet tir\u00e9 de l\u2019ouvrage de Washington Irving (1783-1859), A History of the Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus, Paris, 1828 (vol. I, livr. II, chap. iii). Leutze repr\u00e9sente l\u2019\u00e9pisode du Conseil de sages (\u00e0 la fois des savants et des eccl\u00e9siastiques) rassembl\u00e9s en 1486 au couvent San Esteban de Salamanque, \u00e0 la demande du roi Ferdinand d\u2019Aragon, pour \u00e9tudier les propositions et les arguments de l\u2019explorateur Christophe Colomb (1451-1506) venu d\u00e9fendre son entreprise de liaison maritime des Indes par l\u2019ouest. Un sujet bien dans le go\u00fbt historique du xixe si\u00e8cle, tant en Europe qu\u2019aux \u00c9tats-Unis (J. Vanderlyn,W. H. Powell, R. Rogers, W. M. Chase, Leutze lui-m\u00eame, qui traitera plusieurs fois le th\u00e8me de Christophe Colomb, ainsi en 1843, tableau au mus\u00e9e de Brooklyn, cf. Faroult).","inscriptions":"Signature : \r ; E Leutze (difficilement lisible sous le fauteuil). 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J. vom Rath \u00e0 Cologne, 1870 (cf. Groseclose, 2011), sans doute Johann Jakob vom Rath (1792-1868), marchand et fabricant de sucre, Cologne et Duisburg. \u2013 Coll. part., La Haye (cf. cat. vente chez Bonhams) ; vente, New York, Bonhams, 23 XI 2011, n\u00b0 1031 (\u00ab Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze. Columbus before the High Council of Salamanca \u00bb) ; remarqu\u00e9 par Christophe Forbes, pr\u00e9sident des American Friends of the Louvre, et acquis \u00e0 cette vente par les American Friends of the Louvre ; don de ces derniers au Louvre, avec le concours de Christopher Forbes, de Michael Huffington et d\u2019autres donateurs anonymes, f\u00e9vrier 2012.","jabachInventory":"","napoleonInventory":"","previousOwner":[{"value":"Kunstverein Rheinland und Westphalen","note":"","role":", Propri\u00e9taire"},{"value":"Rath, JJ von","note":" (Cologne)","role":", Collectionneur"}],"acquisitionDetails":[{"mode":"don manuel","doubt":"","dates":[{"type":"date de comit\u00e9\/commission","value":"02\/02\/2012","startYear":2012,"endYear":2012},{"type":"date de l\u0027arr\u00eat\u00e9\/d\u00e9cision","value":"09\/02\/2012","startYear":2012,"endYear":2012}]}],"ownedBy":"Etat","heldBy":"Mus\u00e9e du Louvre, D\u00e9partement des Peintures","longTermLoanTo":"","index":{"Mode d\u0027acquisition":[{"value":"don manuel"}]},"bibliography":[{"bibliographyRef":"Bann, Stephen ; Paccoud, St\u00e9phane (dir.), L\u0027Invention du Pass\u00e9 - Histoires de coeur et d\u0027\u00e9p\u00e9e en Europe, 1802-1850, Tome II, cat. exp. 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