Louis Finson

Louis Finson (1580 or 1575–1617), also known as Ludovicus Finsonius, was a Flemish Baroque painter, who also worked in France. Finson, who enjoyed much success during his lifetime, primarily painted on religious themes; he produced a number of altarpieces, and also several paintings of dramatic moments from the Old Testament.

Finson was born in Bruges. His father, Jacques Finson, was a painter.

He first visited Italy, where he became one of the first Flemish Caravaggisti, then Spain and France, especially Provence. Martin Hermann Faber, a German painter and an imitator, joined him there. (Marseille, Aix and Arles). A number of his paintings are still to be found in Provence, for example three in the famous Romanesque Church of St. Trophime, Arles.

He also was an art dealer; notably he owned two paintings by Caravaggio, one of them being the Madonna of the Rosary, now in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna.

Finson died in Amsterdam in 1617.

La résurrection de Lazare (1613)
Church of Saint-Mathieu
Château-Gombert (Marseille)

Adoration des rois mages (1614)
Church of St. Trophime
Arles

Lapidation de saint Étienne
Church of St. Trophime
Arles

La résurrection
Church of Saint-Jean-de-Malte
Aix-en-Provence

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