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| Sale Location | la grand salle des ventes de la rue de Cléry, No.96, Paris, France | | Seller(s) | Hersant Destouches, Alexandre-Louis
from catalog: Citoyen Destouches | | Expert | Lebrun, Joseph-Alexandre
Julliot, Philippe-François | | Commissaire-Priseur | Boileau, Louis-François-Jacques | | Lugt Number | 5171 | | Notes | The catalogue does not state that the sale lasted more than one day, but the number of lots indicates that it must have lasted at least three or more days.
The owner was previously identified as Charles-René-Dominique Sochet, dit Le Chevalier.Destouches, by Ben Broos in Great Dutch Paintings in America, 1990, p.342. But that Destouches was a naval officer active in the American wars and there is no evidence he collected works of art. He seems to have been chosen because he died in early 1794, shortly before the present sale. The alternative, Alexandre-Louis Hersant Destouches, born 1731, is the likely collector and is mentioned in various early sources as a major collector of Dutch and Flemish paintings. In 1782 he is recorded as living in the Rue St. Marc, an address he left in 1787, moving to the Rue Royale. The date of his death has not been found, but it was presumably around the end of 1793. He was intendant to the comtesse d'Artois and later régisseur des aides et secretaire du Roy. Also Secretaire génral des fermes.
The ESP I catalogue has a few pages of added lots: one page conistws of decorative things fom lot 438 belonging to Destouches. Another has paintings from lot 280 [i.e. 308] belonging to Destouches, many of which are also listed in the BPG I catalogue. And there is a 3 page list titled Objets de Supplement a Divers that conists of paintings and sculpture, most of which is stated to belong to lots 304 and 305. These probably belonged to other consigners and Destouches' name has been removed from these two lots. The proceeds from the sale came to 275,681.4 livres of which the paintings were 256,761.7. Honoraries were paid to Paillet and A.J. Lebrun (Paillet's name does not appear on the catalogue.) | | Catalog Location(s) | ESP I [photocopy in Provenance Index Sales Files] Annot. with all buyers and prices as well as a list of added lots. There are also details about expenses and the distribution of proceeds. The annotator was probably the huisier-priseur L.F.J. Boileau.
ESP II Annot. with all buyers and prices as well as a long list of added lots. It lacks the second part of the catalogue.
BMB Present location uncertain, but it may be identical with ESP I or II. According to Lugt annot. with buyers, prices and added lots.
FLNY [photocopy in Provenance Index Sales Files] Annot. with all buyers and prices. It may have belonged to the J.A. Lebrun, the expert.
BML I Annot. with most buyers and all prices.
BML II Incomplete, lacking pp.33-48 and 55-58. Annot. by Soullié with all buyers and prices.
IFP Annot. with most buyers and all prices.
RKDH I [photocopy in Provenance Index Sales Files] Includes part I only. Annot. with most buyers and all prices.
BPG I Annot. most buyers and all prices for the first part. The second part is not annot. It probably belonged to the dealer J.B.P. Lebrun who appears to have been the annotator.
RKDH II Includes part I only.. Annot. with many buyers and all prices. It belonged to the dealer John Smith but the annotations are not his.
BPG II Annot. with all prices. It probably belonged to the dealer J.B.P. Lebrun.
BNP I Annot. in pencil with many prices.
BNP II Not annot.
BNP III Not annot.
AAP Not annot.
EBNP Not annot.
BPG III Not annot. It probably belonged to the dealer J.B.P. Lebrun. | | See Also | Sale Contents | | | Art Sales Catalogues Online | | | Digitized Catalog - INHA | | | Digitized Catalog - Frick | | | |
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