Saint Vincent de Paul. Line engraving by E. Fessard, 1756, after C. Natoire.

À Paris (rue St Thomas du Louvre) : chez l'auteur graveur du Roi et de sa bibliothèque, [1756]

1 print : engraving, with etching

S. Vincent de Paul. Tableau de la chapelle de St Vincent du côté gauche latéral. C. Natoire pinx. St Fessard sc. 1756.

Edmond Pognon and Yves Bruand, Inventaire du fonds français, graveurs du XVIIIe siècle, Bibliothèque nationale, Département des estampes, tome IX, Paris 1962, p. 66, no. 331

R. Burgess, Portraits of doctors & scientists in the Wellcome Institute, London 1973, no. 3061.8

Madeleine de Terris, 'L'Épiphanie en estampes', Ad vivum: L'estampe et le dessin anciens à la BnF, 6 January 2012, https://estampe.hypotheses.org/tag/adoration-des-mages (accessed August 2018)

Rena M. Hoisington, 'Étienne Fessard's prints of the chapel of the Hôpital des enfants trouvés in Paris', Print quarterly, 2019, XXXVI, no. 4, pp. 404-425

Wellcome Collection 10035i

After: one of the wall paintings by Natoire in the chapel of the new building of the Hôpital des enfans-trouvés, Paris. The institution had been founded by Saint Vincent de Paul in 1638. The new building was constructed around 1747 on the site of the old church of Sainte-Geneviève-des-Ardents, near Notre Dame. The north and south walls each had four bays of paintings in the lower register, and the north wall held two paintings of the Sisters of Saint Vincent de Paul with orphans in the upper register. The east wall held three paintings in the lower register and a large painting of God in glory with angels in the upper register. Two paintings, of Saint Vincent de Paul (shown in the present print) and of Sainte-Geneviève-des-Ardents, in niches were among the paintings on the north and south walls. The building and the paintings were destroyed in 1866, when a new building for the Paris Hôtel Dieu was constructed on the site