Young Gaston, Known as the Angel of Foix is an 1838 oil on canvas painting by Claudius Jacquand, first exhibited at the Salon of 1838 in Paris, where it was praised by the art critics, Frédéric Mercey, « Le salon de 1838 », Revue des Deux Mondes, vol. 14, 1838 « Beaux-arts - Salon de 1838 », Journal des Demoiselles, vol. 6, May 1838 then at the 1839 Brussels Salon, where it won a silver-gilt medal. Moniteur, « Récompenses », Journal de la Belgique, no 342, 8 December 1839, p. 1-2 Its owner donated it to the Louvre, where it still hangs, but retained the usufruct.
It shows the drama of Orthez in 1380 as told by Jean Froissart in his Chronicles, « Salon de 1838 - peinture », Le Magasin pittoresque, vol. 6, April 1838 in which Gaston III, Count of Foix imprisoned his son Gaston after the latter tried to poison him. The Count later murdered the young Gaston.
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