(1745-1818) The Marquis de Pons reviewing the Dauphiné infantry regiment Oil on canvas 64,5 x 80,3 cm / framed: 80,5 x 94,5 cm Dates lower right 1772 Inscribed on the back of the frame “ARMAND AUGUSTIN DE PONS” Provenance : Private collection, Rouen The Pons family, now extinct, was one of the most distinguished in…
(active in Naples from 1755 to 1788) Fire in the Bay of Naples Oil on canvas 105 x 155 cm / framed: 123 x 175 cm Louis XVI period frame stamped Infroit Provenance : Private collection, Italy The discovery of archival documents may one day allow us to shed more light on the formation and…
(Paris 1679-1752 Rome) Judith Holding Holofernes’Head Oil on canvas. 195 x 147 cm Framed : 227 x 180 cm Signed and dated : DE TROY 1730 Louis XV Frame Provenance : M. Denisot, at M. Bossu, Rue Saint-Denis, Paris, in August 1782; Private collection, Italy Bibliographie : Christophe Leribault, Jean-François de Troy, 1679-1752, Arthena, 2002, P.343, p. 416 (mentioned…
(1739 Paris 1821) The Holy Family Oil on canvas 151 x 93 cm Framed : 164,5 x 105,5 cm Circa 1770 Louis XV style frame Bibliography: To be included in the Catalogue Raisonné of the artist by Monsieur Joseph Assemat-Tessandier. It was with his brother, the already well-known and established artist, Louis-Jean-François, that Jean-Jacques Lagrenée began…
ÉCOLE FRANÇAISE DE LA FIN DU XVIIE SIECLE, Le Sans Pareil espagnol, ville de Dinan Huile sur toile 45 x 55 cm Vers 1700 C’est l’un des militaires les plus fameux de son époque, souvent victorieux et couvert d’honneurs par Louis XIV, le comte de Tessé René III de Froulay, marquis de Lavardin (1648-1725)…
ABRAHAM VAN STRIJ (1753 Dordrecht 1826) Allegory of the Arts Oil on canvas 48.5 x 189 cm (Framed : 54,5 x 193,5 cm) Signed lower right: A.Van Strÿ circa 1780-1790 Like his brother Jacob, Abraham began his career in his father’s studio, Leendert van Strij, a painter and decorator in Dordrecht. Wishing to specialize…
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…
Nicolas de Largillière (Paris, 1656 – 1746) Portrait said to be Mademoiselle de La Fosse Oil on canvas Signed and dated on the back of the original canvas: Peint par N. de Largillière 1716 Bibliography: will be included in the catalogue of the work of Largillière of Dominique Brême, now in progress Provenance: collections of the…
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…
