The Mays were a series of paintings in 17th and early 18th century Paris. They were commissioned by the goldsmiths' guild of Paris to offer to the cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris in the early days of the month of May. The tradition began in 1630 and one painting was offered each year between then and 1707, with the exception of 1683 and 1694.
List of the Mays
edit| Image | Year | Painter | Title | Notes | Current location / status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1630 | Georges Lallemant | Saints Peter and Paul Climbing Up To The Temple | Saint-Chéron, parish church | ||
| 1631 | Pierre-Antoine Lemoine | The Miracle of the Madonna | Lost | ||
| 1632 | Aubin Vouet | The Deaths of Ananias and Sapphira | Rouen, musée des Beaux-Arts | ||
| 1633 | Georges Lallemant | Saint Stephen Praying Before His Martyrdom | Lost | ||
| 1634 | Jacques Blanchard | The Descent of the Holy Spirit | Paris, cathédrale Notre-Dame | ||
| 1635 | Laurent de La Hyre | Saint Peter Curing the Sick By His Shadow | Paris, cathédrale Notre-Dame | ||
| 1636 | Jacques de Létin | Saint Paul Preaching on the Areopagus | Destroyed in 1870; previously Strasbourg, musée des Beaux-Arts | ||
| 1637 | Laurent de La Hyre | The Conversion of saint Paul | Paris, cathédrale Notre-Dame | ||
| 1638 | Claude Vignon | The Baptism of Queen Candace's Eunuch | Lost | ||
| 1639 | Aubin Vouet | The Centurion Cornelius at Saint Peter's Feet | Paris, cathédrale Notre-Dame | ||
| 1640 | Aubin Vouet | The Freeing of Saint Peter | Toulouse, musée des Augustins | ||
| 1641 | Nicolas Prévost | The Beheading of Saint James | Lost | ||
| 1642 | Charles Poerson | Saint Peter Preaching in Jerusalem | Paris, cathédrale Notre-Dame | ||
| 1643 | Sébastien Bourdon | The Crucifixion of Saint Peter | Paris, cathédrale Notre-Dame | ||
| 1644 | Michel Corneille l'Ancien | Saint Paul and Saint Barnabas at Lystra | Arras, musée des Beaux-Arts | ||
| 1645 | Charles Errard | Saint Paul Regains His Sight | Lost | ||
| 1646 | Louis Boullogne | Saint Paul's Miracle at Ephesus | Arras, musée des Beaux-Arts | ||
| 1647 | Charles Le Brun | The Crucifixion of Saint Andrew | Paris, cathédrale Notre-Dame | ||
| 1648 | Louis Boullogne | The Martyrdom of Saint Simon | Arras, musée des Beaux-Arts | ||
| 1649 | Eustache Le Sueur | Saint Paul Preaching at Ephesus | Paris, musée du Louvre | ||
| 1650 | Nicolas Loir | Saint Paul Blinding the False Prophet Barjesus and Converting the Proconsul Sergius | Paris, cathédrale Notre-Dame | ||
| 1651 | Charles Le Brun | The Stoning of Saint Stephen | Paris, cathédrale Notre-Dame | ||
| 1652 | Louis Testelin | Saint Peter Reviving the Widow Tabitha | Arras, musée des Beaux-Arts | ||
| 1653 | Charles Poerson | Saint Paul Bitten by a Snake on Malta | Lost | ||
| 1654 | Zacharie Heince | The Conversion of Lydia | Lost | ||
| 1655 | Louis Testelin | The flagellation of Saint Paul and Saint Silas | Paris, cathédrale Notre-Dame | ||
| 1656 | Étienne Villequin | Saint Paul Delivering Agrippa | Lyon, église Saint-Pothin | ||
| 1657 | Louis Boullogne | The Beheading of Saint Paul | Paris, musée du Louvre | ||
| 1658 | Michel Corneille l'Ancien | Saint Peter at Caesarea | Toulouse, église Saint-Pierre | ||
| 1659 | René Dudot | Saint Peter Reviving the Widow Tabitha | Lost | ||
| 1660 | Antoine Paillet | The Martyrdom of Saint Bartholomew | Lyon, cathédrale Saint-Jean | ||
| 1661 | Noël Coypel | Saint James Being Led to Torture, Curing a Paralysed Man and Embracing His Accuser | Paris, musée du Louvre | ||
| 1662 | Daniel Hallé | The Martyrdom of Saint John at the Latin Gate | Clermont-Ferrand, musée d'Art Roger Quillot | ||
| 1663 | Thomas Blanchet | The Rapture of Saint Philip | Arras, musée des Beaux-Arts | ||
| 1664 | Jérôme Sorlay | Christ Appears to Saint Peter | Versailles, cathédrale Saint-Louis | ||
| 1665 | Zacharie Heince | Saint Peter and Simon the Magician | Lost | ||
| 1666 | Nicolas de Plattemontagne | Saint Paul et Silas | Paris, musée du Louvre | ||
| 1667 | Jean-Baptiste de Champaigne | Saint Paul's Martyrdom at Lystra | Marseille, musée des Beaux-Arts | ||
| 1668 | Claude-François Vignon | Saint Bartholomew Healing the King of Armenia's Daughter | Lost | ||
| 1669 | Louis Boullogne | The Ascension | Lost | ||
| 1670 | Gabriel Blanchard | Saint André trésaille de joie à la vue de son supplice | Paris, cathédrale Notre-Dame | ||
| 1671 | Jean-Baptiste de Cany | The Conversion of Saint Dionysius the Areopagite at Athens | Lost | ||
| 1672 | Michel Corneille le Jeune | The Calling of Saint Peter and Saint Andrew | Arras, musée des Beaux-Arts | ||
| 1673 | Jean Jouvenet | Jesus Healing a Paralysed Man | Lost (destroyed in 1944 in the chapel of the École militaire de Saint-Cyr) | ||
| 1674 | Claude II Audran | The Beheading of Saint John the Baptist | Paris, musée du Louvre | ||
| 1675 | René-Antoine Houasse | The Vision of Saint Stephen | Paris, musée du Louvre | ||
| 1676 | Michel Ballin | Saint Paul and Saint Barnabas Separate | Lost | ||
| 1677 | François Verdier | The Resurrection of Lazarus | Paris, église Saint-Germain-des-Prés | ||
| 1678 | Bon Boullogne | Christ Healing a Paralysed Man at the Baths of Bethseda | Arras, musée des Beaux-Arts | ||
| 1679 | Jean-Baptiste Corneille | The Freeing of Saint Peter | Lost | ||
| 1680 | Antoine Coypel | The Assumption of the Virgin | Mirande, église Sainte-Marie | ||
| 1681 | Alexandre Ubelesqui | The Baptism of Christ | Lost | ||
| 1682 | Jean Cotelle | The Marriage at Cana | Yssingeaux, église Saint-Pierre | ||
| 1683 | no may | no may | |||
| 1684 | Charles-François Poërson | Christ Healing the Sick at Gennesaret | Saint-Symphorien-en-Laye, église Notre-Dame | ||
| 1685 | Louis de Boullogne | The Centurion at Christ's Feet | Arras, musée des Beaux-Arts | ||
| 1686 | Claude Guy Hallé | Jesus Driving the Money-Changers out of the Temple | Arras, musée des Beaux-Arts | ||
| 1687 | Louis Chéron | The Prophet Agabus Predicting to Saint Paul What He Would Suffer At Jerusalem | Paris, cathédrale Notre-Dame | ||
| 1688 | Guy-Louis Vernansal | Christ Reviving Jairus' Daughter | Arras, musée des Beaux-Arts | ||
| 1689 | Louis Chéron | Salome Carrying the Head of John the Baptist | Lost | ||
| 1690 | Simon Guillebault | Christ Reviving the Widow of Nain's Son | Larchant, église Saint-Martin | ||
| 1691 | Alexandre Ubelesqui | Christ Healing the Sick | Paris, musée du Louvre | ||
| 1692 | Arnould de Vuez | The Incredulity of Saint Thomas | Lyon, cathédrale Saint-Jean | ||
| 1693 | Joseph Parrocel | Saint John the Baptist Preaching | Arras, musée des Beaux-Arts | ||
| 1694 | no may | no may | |||
| 1695 | Louis de Boullogne the younger | Christ and the Samaritan Woman | Wardour Castle, Wiltshire | ||
| 1696 | Joseph Christophe | The Miracle of the Loaves | Lost | ||
| 1697 | François Marot | Christ Appearing to the Three Marys | Lost | ||
| 1698 | Joseph Vivien | The Adoration of the Magi | Lost | ||
| 1699 | François Tavernier | The Repentance of Saint Peter | Lost | ||
| 1700 | Guy-Louis Vernansal | Christ and the Deaf-Mute Boy Possessed by an Evil Spirit | Lost | ||
| 1701 | Étienne Regnault | Christ and the Woman Caught in Adultery | Lost | ||
| 1702 | Mathieu Elias | Sceva's Children Attacked by a Demon | Paris, cathédrale Notre-Dame | ||
| 1703 | Louis de Silvestre | Saint Peter Curing a Paralysed Man at the Temple Gate | Arras, musée des Beaux-Arts | ||
| 1704 | Claude Simpol | Christ in the House of Martha and Mary | Arras, musée des Beaux-Arts | ||
| 1705 | Louis Galloche | Saint Paul Departs for Miletus | Paris, musée du Louvre | ||
| 1706 | Pierre-Jacques Cazes | The Curing of the Woman with a Flow of Blood | Arras, musée des Beaux-Arts | ||
| 1707 | Jacques Courtin | Saint Paul preaching at Troad and Reviving the young Eutychus | Toulouse, cathédrale Saint-Étienne |