CHARLES GUILLOUX
Dusk on the Ile d’Herblay Oil on canvas 33 x 46 cm Signed and dated lower right Guilloux 95 PROVENANCE: Private collection, France A self-taught artist fascinated by the color theories of Chevreuil and Odgen Rood, Guilloux exhibited for the first time in 1892, at the Salon des Artistes Indépendants. The eight works that he…
FRENCH SCHOOL, MID -17TH CENTURY
Element from a funerary monument White marble 112,5 x 22 x 30 cm Our funerary monument represents a length of fabric draped across an entablature, framed by two skulls and surmounted in the center by two crossed bones and a jawbone; we situate its making to France and date it to the mid-17th century. On the…
AUGUSTE RODIN
(1840-1917) Assemblage of Two Hands Study for The Cathedral Bronze with brown patina 15 x 9 x 6,2 cm Signed : A. Rodin Bears the number : 4/12 and the museum stamp Conceived in 1900 and cast in January 1944 Sand cast Provenance : Musée Rodin, Paris; Minet collection (acquired from the above, 1944); Private collection; Drouot, Gros &…
MICHEL CORNEILLE L’ANCIEN
(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
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…
FRANCOIS DE TROY
Studies for a portrait of a lady Black chalk heightened with white 245 x 387 mm Circa 1700 BIBLIOGRAPHY: Dominique Brême, François de Troy (1645-1730) Paris-Toulouse, 1997, ill. p.99. François de Troy was taught by his father Jean, then by Nicolas Loire, and Claude Lefebvre. He moved to Paris after 1662 and was received…
AURELIO LUINI
(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…
CARLO DONELLI, DIT IL VIMERCATI
(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…
FRÉDÉRIC MILLET
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.…