SIMON VOUET

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…

HENRY MAUPERCHÉ

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);…

ADAM AUGUST MÜLLER

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.”   The Metropolitan Museum of Art.   Origin: The painting featured in a lottery organized by the Danish…

ANTOINE-JEAN GROS

ANTOINE JEAN GROS (1771 Paris – Meudon 1835) Portrait of the Countess of Lasalle and her daughter Oil on canvas 250 x 175 cm 285 x 210 cm framed Signed bottom left Gros .   Army Museum.   Origin : Countess de Lasalle collection; Joséphine-Charlotte Yermoloff, née de Lasalle collection; Hélène Yermoloff, Marquise de Podenas…