Minister of Culture wants to keep the art work "Saint Jerome' in Quebec

Quebec wishes that the painting Saint Jerome hearing the trumpet of the Last Judgment, Jacques-Louis David, remain in Quebec and be protected. The Minister of Culture, Marie Montpetit, asked experts to evaluate the work with a view to classifying it as a heritage asset.

Read the text of Camille Simard on the Radio-Canada website.

Read also: Le nébuleux commerce des œuvres du patrimoine religieux, par Jean-François Nadeau, dans Le Devoir.

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Photo : Musée de la civilisation, collection de la Fabrique de la paroisse Notre-Dame de Québec, 1984.1