JEAN-PIERRE HOÜEL (1735 Rouen – 1813 Paris) Neptune’s Grotto in Tivoli Gouache and watercolor in ink: 755 x 530 mm. Inscription on bottom in ink: General view of Neptune’s Grotto at Tivoli, 6 leagues from Rome, made in 1771. Signed on the right: made by JP Houel / A Tivoli in 1771 This drawing was…
GUSTAVE DORÉ (1832 – Strasbourg – 1883 – Paris) The Raven of Death Pencil , pen , ink and wash enhanced with white gouache: 520 x 355 mm. Signed in ink : G Doré Watermark : J Whatman / 1879 Engraved ( print in the National Library ) Private Collection. Origin : Private collection…
JEAN-HONORE FRAGONARD (1732 – Grasse – Paris – 1806) View of an Italian Park Bistre wash on black chalk: 355 x 465 mm. 72 x 84 cm. Framed. Executed circa 1775 – 1780. Private Collection. Origin: Paris , private collection ; Didier Aaron & Cie Gallery ; Private collection. Exhibition: Fragonard , Galeries…
LOUIS LEOPOLLY (1761 – La Bassée – 1845 – Paris) The Terror Black chalk , stump and white chalk highlights Brown Watermarked Paper Courtalin 587 x 428 mm Around 1795 Private Collection. Origin : Munich , Franz von Lenbach ( 1836 – 1904 ) collection , then his descendants.
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. The Getty Verso: upper left, white rectangular label, printed in black: “Meeting of the national museums Paris /…
JEAN-BAPTISTE MARIE PIERRE (1714 – Paris – 1789) Apollo in His Chariot, Ceiling Design, Oil on canvas 105 x 237 cm. Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.
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. National Gallery of Art. Origin: Listed 1644 in the will…
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. Rijksmuseum. Origin: Jan Danser Nyman His auction, Amsterdam 16 Aug. 1797, no. 66. Sold for f 87,-, together with no. 67 (Alva),…
HENRI LEHMANN (1814 – Kiel – 1882 – Paris) Woman of the « Orient » Oil on canvas 75 x 61 cm. Signed Heinrich Lehmann 1837 Paris National Gallery of Art. Origin: 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 Museum of Fine Arts of Rennes. Origin: Christie’s, London, 1 December 1978, no 137; Gallery Somerville & Simpson, London, circa 1985; Galerie Meissner, Zurich, 1988 (as Pierre Patel);…
