Saint Francis speaking to the animals
Aubusson tapestry woven by the Perathon workshop.n1938.
1938.
Jean Bazaine, like many of his contemporaries, always pursued an intense activity connected with mural art, in works intended for monumental settings. If he is above all known as the designer of stained-glass windows or mosaics, he also created tapestry cartoons, and that from the late 1930s. These works formed part of a revival of sacred art in which Bazaine—especially after the war—would be one of the leading figures.
Jean Bazaine, together with Abbé Morel (who would be one of the major forces behind the introduction of abstraction into churches), directed, from 1936 to 1937, a painting workshop, from which, no doubt, concerns were already taking shape in the field of sacred art. Our figurative Cartoon (Bazaine abandoned figuration during the war), with traditional iconography, is therefore a modest testimony to the artist's first steps in both mural art and sacred art.
