(Around 1603 – 1664) Two terms Black chalk and white chalk 425 x 278 mm c. 1657 Possibly a première pensée for the decoration of Hôtel Amelot de Bisseuil, Paris. Little is known about Corneille the Elder’s early career before he entered the studio of Simon Vouet, with whom he became a close collaborator. Initially influenced by the…
Michel Dorigny (1617 Saint-Quentin- Paris 1665) Study for a satyr Black chalk heightened with white Born in 1617 in Saint-Quentin, Michel Dorigny entered an apprenticeship with Georges Lallemant in 1630, before becoming a student of Simon Vouet and principal engraver of his work. He was admitted to the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture in…
(1530 Milan 1592) Virgin to the child Pen, brown ink and heigthened gouache 125 x 95 mm Around 1570 Provenance : private collection, France, since 1960’s Aurelio Luini belonged to a dynasty of Milanese painters founded by his father. Even though his father died when Luini was an infant, the son remained within his father’s tradition…
(1661 Milan 1715) Man seen da sotto Sanguine 220 x 160 mm Carlo Donelli is known as ‘Il Vimercati’, after the Lombard town of Vimercate from which his family is thought to have originated. A pupil of Ercole Procaccini the Younger (1596-1676), he gained a considerable reputation as a painter in Milan. He was a…
Self-portrait Watercolour and gum arabic over pencil 297 x 218 mm Circa 1817 Frederic Millet’s initial teachers were d’Aubry, Pernot, and Isabey and he was one of the latter’s best pupils. Between 1806 and 1859 he regularly exhibited at the Salon as a portraitist and was one of the most accomplished miniaturists of his period.…
(1774 Paris-Rome 1833) Etude pour le portrait de Louis de La Rochejaquelein Pierre noire rehaussée de blanc, sur papier bleu 610 x 460 mm 1819 Bibliographie : Fabien Pillet dans Le Journal de Paris, 31 août 1819; Delécluze dans Le Lycée français, 20 octobre 1819; « Les Portraits des généraux vendéens, commande et critique, diffusion et…
(Pistoia 1623 – 1703 Roma) The continence of Scipio Black chalk, pen and ink and brown wash, heightened with white gouache on blue paper 365 x 225 mm Annotated : Pietro da Cortona In 1647, Baldi left Pistoia for the Roman workshop of Pietro da Cortona, and was, with Ciro Ferri, one of the most promising…
The ruins of Château de Saint Cloud: the Salon of Mars, leading to the Gallery of Apollo Watercolour over pencil Signed lower left: WWyld. Inscribed in pencil, verso: The Palace. St Cloud / the dome of the Invalides is seen through the window on the left 350 x 266 mm Provenance: Sir Mathew Thorpe, England…
Study of a young lady reading Red chalk heightened with white on buff paper Stamped lower left: Beurdeley collection (Lugt 421) 237 x 189 mm PROVENANCE: Beurdeley collection Pierre Chasselat was a pupil of Joseph-Marie Vien and was initially taught as a miniature painter. His first known miniature is of a lady in a…
Study of a Flower Gouache 390 x 267 mm Signed and dated lower left : fait d’après nature par/GV Spaendonck 1778 Our Study of a Flower, from the gillyflower family, is dated 1778, quite early within the artist’s oeuvre. It was in 1780 that he was named professor of flower painting at the Jardin du…
