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…
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…
(1843 Paris 1896) A visit to the Museum Oil on canvas 103 x 48 cm 1873 Signed : E Duez Duez, like Gervex and Alfred Stevens, had a strong preference for elegant subject matter; much of his work features young ladies glimpsed at their leisure activities at a time when tourism and travel was just…
