Jean-Marie Melchior Doze (French, 1827-1913), Three Dome Studies for The Life and Death of the Virgin

Each an oil on paper painting, circa 1889, includes The Annunciation, the left side of the triptych Detail of the Vault: Apostles Before the Empty Tomb of the Virgin and The Marriage of the Virgin, unsigned, matted and framed below glass.

Sight sizes 16 x 11 in.; Frame dimensions 25 x 17 3/4 in.

Jean-Marie Melchior Doze was a French painter renowned for his religious artworks and contributions to Christian art in southern France. Trained under Numa Boucoiran and Hippolyte Flandrin, he created notable church decorations. Beyond painting, he served as an art educator, museum curator, and member of the Académie de Nîmes.

Melchior Doze painted these three scenes as studies for the paintings on the dome choir gallery in the Church of Our Lady of Sumène, Occitanie, France. This series of paintings, which Doze completed in 1889, are still present today.

Literature:
CHAPOT, François. Melchior Doze: Painter of History, Revue du Midi, vol. 13, February-March 1893, pp. 97-124 and 244-273.

Slight toning to the sheets, not examined outside the frames.