Above: Panel - La légende De Saint-Hubert, Maurice Denis, 1897, Sept panneaux, huile sur toile © ADAGP, Paris 2010 - large image: HERE

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In 1895 scholar and politician Baron Denys Cochin commissioned Maurice Denis to paint a mural for his office.  The theme: the legend of St. Hubert, in which the cross of Christ has appeared between the antlers of a stag during a hunt.

This allows symbolist and mystic Maurice Denis in 1897 to make his first major mural. The work is a summary and means of expression for the Nabi period: harmony of form and color, motion,  visual and decorative sensations …

The setting consists of seven panels that follow one another on three walls, following the course of hunting and along a path Manichean. Four themes interweave them: the hunt, the conversion of St. Hubert and the evidence of the sacred and the misfortune of hunters driven by their passions, and finally the fate of the family Cochin, a symbol of the human family united in peace and prayer. (musee-mauricedenis.fr)

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