FRANÇOIS BOUCHER (1703 Paris 1770) Study of Mars for Mars and Venus Surprised by Vulcan Black chalk, white chalk, with highlights in pastel on beige, once greyish-blue, paper 245 x 255 mm (Framed : 42 x 43 cm) Bears period inscription at lower right: f Boucher del Executed circa 1754 Provenance : Private collection, Paris…
GUSTAVE DORE (Strasburg, 1832 – 1883 Paris) ‘Sunbeam’ R.Y.S., the celebrated yacht of Thomas and Annie Brassey Grey wash heightened with white 368 x 240 mm Signed lower right: G Doré The Sunbeam, a three-masted topsail-yard schooner, 157 ft (48 m) long, weighing 532 tons and equipped with a 350-horsepower steam engine, was built in…
(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 (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…
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…
(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…
(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…
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.…
(1774 Paris-Rome 1833) Etude pour le portrait de Louis de La Rochejaquelein Pierre noire rehaussée de blanc, sur papier bleu 610 x 460 mm 1819 Bibliographie : Fabien Pillet dans Le Journal de Paris, 31 août 1819; Delécluze dans Le Lycée français, 20 octobre 1819; « Les Portraits des généraux vendéens, commande et critique, diffusion et…
(Pistoia 1623 – 1703 Roma) The continence of Scipio Black chalk, pen and ink and brown wash, heightened with white gouache on blue paper 365 x 225 mm Annotated : Pietro da Cortona In 1647, Baldi left Pistoia for the Roman workshop of Pietro da Cortona, and was, with Ciro Ferri, one of the most promising…
