Winner of the Rome Prize, history painter and son of François Hubert Drouais.
Jesus Driving the Merchants out of the Temple.This study, painted between 1784 and 1788, was formerly attributed to the 18th-century French School. Purchased by the city of Rennes from the Fischer-Kiener Gallery in 1986.
The painting's sources are from:
- The Gospel according to St. Matthew (Ch. 21): "And Jesus went into the temple of God, and cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves, And said unto them, It is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves ."
- The Gospel according to St. Mark (Ch.11): "and Jesus went into the temple, and began to cast out them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves; And would not suffer that any man should carry any vessel through the temple. And he taught, saying unto them, Is it not written, My house shall be called of all nations the house of prayer? but ye have made it a den of thieves."
- The Gospel according to St. Luke (Ch.19):"And he went into the temple and began to cast out them that sold therein, and them that bought; Saying unto them, It is written, My house is the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves."
- The Gospel according to St. John (Ch.2): "And found in the temple those that sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the changers of money sitting; And when he had made a scourge of small cords, he drove them all out of the temple, and the sheep, and the oxen; and poured out the changers' money, and overthrew the tables; And said unto them that sold doves, Take these things hence; make not my Father's house an house of merchandise."
Rennes, musée des beaux-arts (inv. 86.3.1).
(C) Copyright Direction des Musées de France, 1994. Cliché musée des beaux-arts de Rennes.