LOUIS LEOPOLD BOILLY (1761 – La Bassée – 1845 – Paris) L’Effroi Black chalk, stump and white chalk highlights. Brown watermarked paper. 587 x 428 mm Signed lower left: Gros. Provenance: Munich, Franz von Lenbach (1836–1904) collection, then his descendants.
FRANÇOIS – JOSEPH NAVEZ (1787 – Charleroi – 1869 – Brussels) Aumône d’une Frascatane Oil on canvas 116 x 137 cm Signed and dated: F.J. NAVEZ. / ROMA.1821. Provenance : From 1822 Steengracht collection; private collection Germany Exhibitions: Brussels, 1821, exhibition organized by Auguste De Hemptinne. Bibliography: Louis–Joseph Alvin, François–Joseph Navez, sa vie, ses…
TITIAN (TIZIANO VECELLIO) (c.1488/90 – Pieve di Cadore – 1576 – Venice) Portrait of Alfonso d’Avalos, Marchese del Vasto, in Armor with a Page Oil on canvas 110 x 80 cm. 140.3 x 115.3 cm framed. Verso: upper left, white rectangular label, printed in black: “Réunion des musées nationaux Paris / LE SIECLE DE TITIEN…
JEAN-BAPTISTE MARIE PIERRE (1714 – Paris – 1789) Apollo in His Chariot, Ceiling Design, Oil on canvas 105 x 237 cm.
SIMON VOUET (1590 – Paris – 1649) Madonna and Child Oil on canvas 110.3 x 89.4 cm. 137.8 x 118.43 cm framed. Lower left on the stylobate, with an umlaut above the V and a dot above each I: SIMON VOVET / PINXIT.1633. Provenance: Listed 1644 in the will of Claude Bordier [d. 1644],…
DIRCK CHRISTIAENSZ VAN DELEN (1605 – Heusden – 1671 – Arnemuiden) The Iconoclastic Crisis of 1566 Oil on panel 50 x 67 cm. Signed upper right. Date 1630 on the architecture. Provenance: Jan Danser Nyman His auction, Amsterdam 16 Aug. 1797, no. 66. Sold for f 87,-, together with no. 67 (Alva), to Jan…
HENRI LEHMANN (1814 – Kiel – 1882 – Paris) Woman of the “Orient” Oil on canvas 75 x 61 cm. Signed Heinrich Lehmann 1837 Paris Provenance: Private collection, Spain.
HENRY MAUPERCHÉ (1602 – Paris – 1686) A Landscape with Figures before a Ruined Palace Oil on canvas 128.5 x 113 cm. Circa 1645 Provenance: Christie’s, London, 1 December 1978, no 137; Gallery Somerville & Simpson, London, circa 1985; Galerie Meissner, Zurich, 1988 (as Pierre Patel); private collection
ADAM AUGUST MÜLLER (1811 – Copenhagen – 1844) Figure in the Antiquities Room at Charlottenborg Oil on canvas 32 x 25 cm 285 x 210 cm framed Bears an inscription on the stretcher: “A. Müller fec.” Provenance: The painting featured in a lottery organized by the Danish Artistic Society (Kunstforeningen), on the 4th…
HYACINTH RIGAUD (1659 – Perpignan – 1743 – Paris) Portrait of the Sculptor Martin van den Bogaert, known as Desjardins (1637 – 1694) Oil on canvas: 46.46 × 36.22 inches
