Painting
Papineau en chasse-galerie
Jean-Claude Dupont’s painting Papineau en chasse-galerie illustrates the legend by means of a canoe flying over Montreal in the Saint-Henri district. In the foreground, we see a shopping street with brightly painted buildings, the Hôtel Sainte-Cunégonde and a fishmonger’s, against a gray background of hills dotted with church steeples, with a cross atop the highest of them all, Mount Royal. This depiction is not without reference to the conclusion of the legend, in which a steeple is struck by the boat in flight. The canoe and its crew are shown traveling at twilight, against a colorful sky lit by a full moon. The canoe is guided by a flock of white geese, and its prow features two tricolored (green, white and red) Patriote flags and a figure wearing their bonnets, in reference to the famous politician and leader of the Patriote Party, Louis-Joseph Papineau (1786-1871).
- Accession Number 2010.01
- Artiste / Auteur Dupont, Jean-Claude
- Date 2009
- Medium and Support oil, canvas
- Measurements 56 x 70 cm
Historical context
The legend of the hunter-gallery, a fantastic hunt, has many versions, from its Poitevin origins of the cursed hunter among others, to that of the magical canoe trip in Quebec. According to the Poitevin legend, a lord named Gallery hunted on a Sunday during the religious service, which constitutes sacrilege. The hunter stalks a deer that has taken refuge in a hermit’s cave, and kills it despite the hermit’s prohibition, on pai...
- Accession Number 2010.01
- Artiste / Auteur Dupont, Jean-Claude
- Date 2009
- Medium and Support oil, canvas
- Measurements 56 x 70 cm
© Pointe-à-Callière Collection, donation by Jean-Claude Dupont, 2010.001
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