Nicolas Colombel (1644 Sotteville-lès-Rouen – Paris 1717) Moses Hidden in the Bullrushes Oil on canvas Executed circa 1680-1690 Provenance: Perhaps from the collection of Jean de Julienne, through the sale after his death, 30 March -22 May 1767, no. 234 , acquired by Prince Dimitri Alexeïevitch Galitzine (1738-1803), for 440 livres; Galerie Heim, Paris; Allen Field…
Jacques Stella (Lyon, 1596 – Paris, 1657) La Vierge à l’Enfant avec saint François et saint Jean-Baptiste Oil on marble 38,2 x 42,6 cm Circa 1635 Provenance : Sale Joseph Artaud, Paris, 15 november 1791, lot 90 ; Sotheby’s, New York, 28 january 1999, lot 403 ; Private collection of the East Coast of the United…
Portrait of simon pauquet, inspecteur général des ponts et chaussées Oil on canvas 57 x 46 cm (framed : 69 x 59,5 cm) Circa 1785 Provenance: André Giroux, his sale, 25-03-1904, lot 141; Marcel Zambaux, his sale, Galerie Georges Petit, 21-11-1922, lot 72, to the Baron Emmanuel Léonino (1864-1936) ; Camille Groult, Paris ; Pierre…
François André Vincent (1746 Paris 1816) The Flaying of Saint Bartholomew, after Mattia Preti Oil on canvas Circa 1774 LITERATURE : Jean-Pierre Cuzin, Vincent entre Fragonard et David, Arthéna, p.382 n°177 p PROVENANCE : Peut-être le tableau peint à Naples pour Bergeret de Grancourt fin mai 1774 ; peut-être Paris, collection Bergeret ; peut-être sa vente après décès, Paris, « en son hôtel…
Study for ‘The Greeks and Trojans fighting over the body of Patroclus’ Oil on canvas 89.5 x 115.5 cm c.1781 Provenance: Probably the artist’s posthumous sale, Paris, 16 April 1792 (n°11 ‘Trois esquisses, dont le Combat des Grecs fur le corps de Patrocle…’) Bibliography: Marc Sandoz, Nicolas-Guy Brenet (1728-1792), Editart-Quatre chemins, 1979, p.114, n°96…
Study for “La Leçon d’Agriculture”, Oil on canvas 66 x 55 cm 1797-1798 In the Musée des Beaux-Arts of Bordeaux History : Anonymous sale, Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, 23 June 1922, lot 15 (as English School, late 18th century; “This painting could be attributed to J.-C. Ibbetson or to J.-R. Smith”); acquired at this sale,…
ADOLF ULRIK WERTMÜLLER (1751 Stockholm – Wilmington, USA, 1811) Portrait of a Young Woman Oil on canvas 41 x 32.5 cm Signed: A. Wertmuller.f. / à Paris 1786 PROVENANCE: Alfred Bergs, Djursholm BIBLIOGRAPHY: Albin Roosval “Svenka Hem i och Bilder,” 1915, “Bankir Alfred Bergs hem och samlingar,” p. 17 & 19 Student of a French sculptor…
Two studies of a man Oil on canvas 38,5 x 50 cm Executed circa 1840-45 PROVENANCE : Collection of the artist ; his sale, Paris, 20 march-1st april 1876 (stamp on the reverse of the stretcher) Pils studied painting under Lethière, then in the studio of Picot, winning the Prix de Rome in Paris, after…
(1780 Grasse-Paris 1850) The Triumph of Homer Oil on canvas Signed lower left: A. Fragonard Circa 1830-1840 Provenance : Fragonard post-death sale, 6 december 1850, n°23 (under the title “Les Jeux Olympiques“) : Hôtel Drouot sale, 21 january 1926, n°123 ; Valenciennes sale, 25 june 2012. Literature : Catalogue d’une collection de tableaux modernes, peints par…
(1750 Toulouse – Paris 1819) L’éruption du Vésuve 65,5 x 80,8 cm Oil on canvas 1814 Provenance : Private collection Exhibition : « Pompei@Madre », Museo d’arte contemporeana donnaregina, 2017-2018 Bibliography : Probably Geneviève Lacambre, L’Eruption du Vésuve par Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes in La Revue du Louvre, 5/6 1980, pp. 314, note 2 After a long period of dormancy, Vesuvius…
