(1777 Lyon -1852 Ecully) Montaigne Visiting Le Tasse Oil on canvas 130 x 100 cm Circa 1822 PROVENANCE: Lyon, the artist’s descendants BIBLIOGRAPHY: Marie-Claude Chaudonneret, Fleury Richard et Pierre Révoil, La Peinture Troubadour, Arthena, 1980 Having chosen the stairwell of the crypt of the Lyon Church of Saint-Irenaeus, Richard depicts the meeting of Michel de…
(1777 Lyon – 1852 Ecully) Le Tasse en prison visité par Montaigne Huile sur toile 120 x 95 cm Circa 1822 PROVENANCE : Descendance de l’artiste BIBLIOGRAPHIE : Marie-Claude Chaudonneret, Fleury Richard et Pierre Révoil, La Peinture Troubadour, Arthena, 1980, N°44, p.82. Ayant choisi pour cadre l’escalier de la crypte de l’église lyonnaise de Saint-Irénée, Richard représente…
View of the Small Town of La Cava, in the Kingdom of Naples, Seen from the Salerno Side Oil on canvas 71.5 x 98 cm Signed lower left: P. Chauvin Circa 1810 PROVENANCE : Possibly the collection of the Duc de Talleyrand-Périgord (1754-1838); by inheritance, Alexandre-Edmond (1787-1872) (his nephew); Napoléon-Louis (1811-1898) (his great-nephew); possibly the…
(Viarmes 1718 – Rome 1762) Sketch for the Allegory of the Earth Oil on paper mounted on canvas 64 x 41 cm Framed: 78,5 x 56,5 cm Executed circa 1752-53 PROVENANCE: private collection, Switzerland Preparatory study for the painting commissioned by Prince Paul-Antoine II Estheràzy, of which lower portion is in the Szépmûvészeti Múzeum in…
CALLED JAMES BERTRAND (Lyon 1823 – Orsay 1887) Lesbia end the Sparrow Oil on canvas 110 x 65 cm Signed and dated, lower left : JAMES BERTRAND.1875. PROVENANCE : Scottish, private collection EXHIBITION : Salon de 1875, n°185 After growing up in Lyon, Jean-Baptiste Bertrand joined the studio of Claude Bonnefond, a former pupil of…
LE MAÎTRE DES CORTÈGES (Active in Paris, mid-17th century) The Holy Family Oil on copper 37.5 x 32 cm Framed: 48.5 x 40 cm PROVENANCE: Private collection, Eastern France ENGRAVING: engraving by René Lochon in 1643 During two exhibitions in 1934 (Les peintres de la réalité at the Orangerie and Les frères Le Nain at…
FRANÇOIS BOUCHER (1703 Paris 1770) Study of Mars for Mars and Venus Surprised by Vulcan Black chalk, white chalk, with highlights in pastel on beige, once greyish-blue, paper 245 x 255 mm (Framed : 42 x 43 cm) Bears period inscription at lower right: f Boucher del Executed circa 1754 Provenance : Private collection, Paris…
LEONARDO COCCORANTE (1680 Naples 1750) Architectural caprices A pair, oil on canvas 205 x 152 cm Circa 1730 Bear an inventory number on the canvas at the back top right : 220 and 222 PROVENANCE : Count of Dampierre, by descent, Count Aymeric de Dampierre ; private collection, France Coccorante began his studies in the…
GUSTAVE DORE (Strasburg, 1832 – 1883 Paris) ‘Sunbeam’ R.Y.S., the celebrated yacht of Thomas and Annie Brassey Grey wash heightened with white 368 x 240 mm Signed lower right: G Doré The Sunbeam, a three-masted topsail-yard schooner, 157 ft (48 m) long, weighing 532 tons and equipped with a 350-horsepower steam engine, was built in…
CLAUDE-JOSEPH VERNET (1713 Avignon – Paris 1789) View of the Temple of Venus with Castello di Baia in the background Black Chalk, ink and black, grey and brown wash 410 x 690 mm c. 1750 PROVENANCE: formerly part of an album assembled in Vienna in the 19th century; Antoine-Augustin Renouard, Paris, 20 November 1854, part of…
