Saint Peter Repentant
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Saint Peter Repentant

1645
Georges de La Tour (French, 1593–1652) visual detail
ArtistGeorges de La Tour (French, 1593–1652)
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Market Intelligence

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Public evidence
Last known price $14,150 Dealer purchase · Dec 31, 1951
-81.1% vs previous observed sale
Matched price history · normalized USD · Foundry provisional
1951 · $75,0001951 · $14,150
$75K1951
$14K1951
Last known price$14,1502 matched observed sales
Observed median$44,575
Observed sales2
Artist index—
1951-12-31Dealer purchase$14,150.00
1951-11-16Dealer sale$75,000.00
Artist index unavailableInsufficient qualifying evidence; no synthetic curve is published.Artist-level context is not an artwork valuation.

Comparable Sales

Same-artist public sales ranked by medium, creation year, dimensions and sale recency.

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Provenance

Public
–1857

Possibly Alleyn's College of God's Gift, Dulwich, Surrey

[{'description': "Possibly Alleyn's College of God's Gift, Dulwich, Surrey", 'citations': [], 'footnotes': None, 'date': '–1857', 'sortorder': 1}, {'description': 'Reverend William Lucas Chafy, by inheritance to his heirs', 'citations': [], 'footnotes': N

[{'description': "Possibly Alleyn's College of God's Gift, Dulwich, Surrey", 'citations': [], 'footn...

–1878

Reverend William Lucas Chafy, by inheritance to his heirs

1878–May 1951

Heirs of Reverend Chafy, Bath, Somerset

November 1951

[Marshall Spink, London] sold to [M. Knoedler & Co., New York].

November 1951

[M. Knoedler & Co., New York], sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1951

1951–present

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Source provenance text

[{'description': "Possibly Alleyn's College of God's Gift, Dulwich, Surrey", 'citations': [], 'footnotes': None, 'date': '–1857', 'sortorder': 1}, {'description': 'Reverend William Lucas Chafy, by inheritance to his heirs', 'citations': [], 'footnotes': None, 'date': '–1878', 'sortorder': 2}, {'description': 'Heirs of Reverend Chafy, Bath, Somerset', 'citations': [], 'footnotes': None, 'date': '1878–May 1951', 'sortorder': 3}, {'description': '[Marshall Spink, London] sold to [M. Knoedler & Co., New York].', 'citations': [], 'footnotes': None, 'date': 'November 1951', 'sortorder': 4}, {'description': '[M. Knoedler & Co., New York], sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1951', 'citations': [], 'footnotes': None, 'date': 'November 1951', 'sortorder': 5}, {'description': 'The Cleveland Museum of Art', 'citations': [], 'footnotes': None, 'date': '1951–present', 'sortorder': 6}]

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Exhibitions

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{'current': [{'id': 701945, 'title': 'Masterpieces', 'description': 'Masterpieces. Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH (organizer) (November 8-December 16, 1956).', 'opening_date': '1956-11-08T05:00:00'}, {'id': 301477, 'title': 'In Memoriam: Leonard C. Hanna, Jr.', 'description': 'In Memoriam: Leonard C. Hanna, Jr.. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 4-April 7, 1958).', 'opening_date': '1958-03-04T05:00:00'}, {'id': 445521, 'title': 'Georges de La Tour', 'description': "Georges de La Tour. Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris, France (organizer) (May 10-September 25, 1972).", 'opening_date': '1972-05-10T04:00:00'}, {'id': 177035, 'title': 'Georges de la Tour and His World: Masterpieces in Focus', 'description': 'Georges de la Tour and His World: Masterpieces in Focus. National Gallery of Art (organizer) (October 6, 1996-January 5, 1997); Kimbell Art Museum (February 1-May 10, 1997).', 'opening_date': '1996-10-06T00:00:00'}, {'id': 215166, 'title': 'Georges de la Tour (1593-1652)', 'description': 'Georges de la Tour (1593-1652). Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, Paris, France (October 1, 1997-January 26, 1998).', 'opening_date': '1997-10-01T00:00:00'}, {'id': 223411, 'title': 'The Light of Truth. Caravaggio, La Tour, Rembrandt, Zurbarán', 'description': 'The Light of Truth. Caravaggio, La Tour, Rembrandt, Zurbarán. Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea Accademia Carrara di Bergamo, Bergamo, Italy (September 9-December 17, 2000).', 'opening_date': '2000-09-09T00:00:00'}, {'id': 214251, 'title': 'Georges de la Tour', 'description': 'Georges de la Tour. National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan (organizer) (March 7-May 29, 2005).', 'opening_date': '2005-03-07T00:00:00'}, {'id': 222394, 'title': 'Masterpieces of European Painting from The Cleveland Museum of Art', 'description': 'Masterpieces of European Painting from The Cleveland Museum of Art. Frick Collection, New York, NY (organizer) (November 8, 2006-January 28, 2007).', 'opening_date': '2006-11-08T00:00:00'}, {'id': 179662, 'title': 'Masterpieces of European Painting from the Cleveland Museum of Art', 'description': 'Masterpieces of European Painting from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage, Beachwood, OH (March 29-July 8, 2007).', 'opening_date': '2007-03-29T00:00:00'}, {'id': 220311, 'title': 'Georges de la Tour', 'description': 'Georges de la Tour. Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, Spain (organizer) (February 23-June 12, 2016).', 'opening_date': '2016-02-23T00:00:00'}, {'id': 677024, 'title': 'Georges de la Tour: Between Shadow and Light', 'description': 'Georges de la Tour: Between Shadow and Light. Musée Jacquemart-André, Paris, France (September 11, 2025-February 22, 2026) https://www.musee-jacquemart-andre.com/fr/georges-tour.', 'opening_date': '2025-09-11T04:00:00'}], 'legacy': [{'description': 'Caravaggio and His Followers. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio (October 29, 1971–January 2, 1972).', 'opening_date': '1971-10-29T00:00:00'}]}

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Sourced Overview Evidence

During Jesus’s arrest on the night of the Last Supper, the apostle Peter denied knowing him. Although Christ forgave his betrayal, Peter was consumed by guilt. Georges de La Tour represents Peter as an old man, reflecting on his past actions in a state of perpetual repentance. The apostle’s red-rimmed eyes and the uncertain light of the lantern suggest anxious sleepless nights; muted colors and simple forms give visual expression to Peter’s somber emotions. Unlike other artists inspired by Caravaggio, La Tour worked in relative isolation in northeastern France, and his connection to his Italian counterpart remains unclear.

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Evidence state

2 observed sales · 0 comparable sales · 7 structured provenance events · 23 structured exhibitions.

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