PIERRE CHASSELAT

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…

GERARD VAN SPAENDONCK

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…

SALOMON CORRODI

View of the Forum, with the columns of the temple of Vespasien Pen, brown ink and watercolor over pencil 14 3/8 x 21 ¼ in. (365 x 540 mm) Signed and dated: S Corrodi.fec. / Roma. 1845   Corrodi was a pupil of Wetzel and followed him on many of his trips to France, Germany…

NICOLAI ABRAHAM ABILDGAARD

(1743 Danemark 1809) The sun god Apollo entering the constellation of Cancer, emblematic of the summer solstice and The sun god Apollo entering the constellation of Capricorn, emblematic of the winter solstice Pen, ink and wash over graphite 220 x 145 et 230 x 165 mm Both inscribed: abilgaard One inscribed: 3732 and Korteste Dag The other inscribed 3731 and Laengste Dag…

CHARLES-NICOLAS COCHIN LE JEUNE

(1715 Paris 1790) Léon freeing Roger from prison Red chalk over a red chalk counterproof 207 x 145 mm Titled, signed and dated : C.N. Cochin filius, delin, 1773 1773 Illustration for: Ludovico Ariosto, Orlando Furioso, 1775-83, canto 45 Son of the engravers Charles-Nicolas Cochin I and Louise-Magdelaine Hortemels (1688-1767), Cochin le Jeune became his parents’ pupil.…

JOSEPH-BENOIT SUVÉE

(1743 Bruges – Rome 1807) View of the aqueduct of Néron Sanguine 450 x 323 mm Around 1774 Bibliography : Sophie Join-Lambert and Anne Leclair, Joseph-Benoît Suvée, 1743 – 1807, un artiste entre Bruges, Rome et Paris, 2017, p. 302, n° D.181. A painter of portraits and history paintings, Suvée studied at the Academy of Bruges…

GIOVANNI FRANCESCO ROMANELLI

Giovanni Francesco Romanelli (vers 1600 – Viterbo, 1662) Ceres Huile sur toile Exécutée vers 1657 Disciple le plus fidèle de Pierre de Cortone, Romanelli travailla avec lui au Palais Barberini, avant de devenir le protégé de la puissante famille romaine. Romanelli fit deux importants séjours en France. En 1645-1647 tout d’abord, il remplaça Cortone pour…

NICOLAS COLOMBEL

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

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…