| | | | | | | | Document | Sale Catalog F-A941 | |
| Sale Location | rue de Cléry, No.96, Paris, France | | Seller(s) | Montesquiou-Fezensac, Anne-Pierre, marquis de
Lebrun, Jean-Baptiste-Pierre
Lebrun, Alexandre-Joseph
etc.
from catalog: M. le Marquis de ***.
from auctioneer's copy: Montesquiou
from other sources: [J.B.P. Lebrun; A.J. Lebrun; etc.] | | Expert | Lebrun, Jean-Baptiste-Pierre | | Lugt Number | 4364 | | Notes | The title page of EBNP is inscribed "Montesquiou" but it may be modern. BNP is not inscribed with owner's name. Title page of AAP II inscribed "Montesquiou." So is AAP I, but it is in pencil and may not be old. IFP inscribed "Montesquiou." AKW is inscribed "Montesquiou"
Montesquiou was a writer and general, born 1739 and died 1798. It is doubtful that he owned very many of the lots. AAP I is annot. with the abbreviated names of a few sellers, but it is not clear why only a few are so marked. The name "Mont" or "Mon" is associated with only five lots 50, 83, 84, 103 and 112. He is also given as the buyer of lots 34, 40, 60, 172,-173, 238 and 244, suggesting that he may have owned these as well, but two of these are marked "moy", presumably for Lebrun, implying that Montesquiou was in fact buying and not necessarily just buying in. He is not found as a buyer in any other sale except one in 1766, and no connection can be found between those transactions and the present sale. The name is also found as a buyer for a single painting in 1789 and Lebrun cites him as the previous owner of a few lots in later sales, but Lebrun commonly referred to earlier sales using the name of the nominal owner even when the contents were demonstrably his own.
However, it appears that lot 249, s pair of pictures by Hubert Robert is known to have been painted for Montesquiou in 1784 and so was certainly his at the present sale, although it is not so marked in AAP I, so there may be many others like it.
Eight lots are marked "moy" presumably for Lebrun: 20, 40, 44, 75, 128, 161, 186 and 209. A few others are marked C, Ca, Gue, Don or Donj, Ju, Jul, Pet and La or Lab. Donj must be Donjeux Ju and Jul are certainly C.F. Julliot, La is Langlier and C may be Constantin, but the others are not easily identified. The bulk of the lots have no seller, but most probaby were Lebrun's or his brother's, Joseph-Alexandre. A total of 51 more lots can be directly associated.with one or the other of the two brothers, having been sold to them or found in their possession during the months prior to this sale. It is not obvious why some lots would be marked "moy" and the others left with no name. A few of the unmarked lots can also be associated with Donjeux, Langlier, Juliot and Constantin, so one cannot easily make assumptions about any of the remainder.
Lot no.260 by Fragonard had been acquired by Langlier in 1778 at the Natoire sale. He then put it up for sale in 1786, results unknown. The same two paintings are then found in the present sale where they were bought again [i.e. bought in] by Langlier, so he must have consigned them to this sale. Note too that the preceding lot no.259 was consigned by "La" who was probably Langlier, although that picture is not known to have belonged to him. Lot 277 by Quesnoy can also be connected to Langlier.
Similarly, lot 268 by Norblin had been bought by Constantin in February, 1788, and was bought in by him at the present sale. It then reappeared in 1790 in a sale for which he was co-expert, so he probably owned it throughout.
The lower title page of AAP II is annotated with a list of paintings and sculpture that had been bought (or knocked down to?) the dealer Milliotti at the Rohan-Chabot sale of 1787. The first three pieces of sculpture do not reappear here, but the two paintings, by Teniers and W. van de Velde, are lots 63 and 101 in the present sale. The list is cut off, but probably would have included three more paintings by W. Mieris, Le Sueur and Greuze. The second of these is lot 188 in the present sale and the last is probably lot 256. We have assumed that Milliotti consigned them, but at least two of them, lots 101 and 188, are marked "Ch" in the AAP II catalogue, perhaps for Chabot? Both were bought in, so perhaps all of these lots were still the property or Rohan-Chabot's heirs?
At least three lots had appeared in Lebrun's sale of a German collection in November, 1787 (F-A907) where they were perhaps bought in. | | Catalog Location(s) | AAP I Expert's copy, annot. with some sellers, all buyers and all prices. The annotator is not Lebrun nor his usual associate.
AAP II Expert's copy, annot. by an associate of J.B.P. Lebrun with all buyers and prices. The lower part of the title page in annot. with a list of paintings and sculpture purchased by the dealer Milliotti at the Rohan-Chabot sale of 1787, some of which are found in the present sale.
IFP Annot. with most buyers and all prices.
JPGM [photocopy in Provenance Index Sales Files] Annot. with most buyers and all prices.
AKW Annot. by Soullié with many prices. There is also a pencilled list of paintings purchased by the dealer Constantin, presumably the catalogue's owner. Later it belonged to M. König.
EBNP Not annot.
RKDH [photocopy in Provenance Index Sales Files] Not annot.
BNP Not annot.
LP Not annot.
JAH Annot. with prices. Formerly HP (Heim). | | Photocopies | FLNY (of EBNP) | | See Also | Sale Contents | | | Art Sales Catalogues Online | | | Digitized Catalog - INHA | | | Digitized Catalog - GRI | | | Digitized Catalog - Frick | | | |
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