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| Sale Location | Rue du Gros-Chenet, n.o 488, Paris, France | | Seller(s) | from catalog: [Aucun]
from other sources: [Denoor, Verdun, Fabre &c] | | Expert | Lebrun, Jean-Baptiste-Pierre | | Commissaire-Priseur | Baudouin, Antoine-Thibault | | Lugt Number | 5577 | | No. of Painting Lots | 96 | | Notes | Although this sale consisted of just 99 lots, ten of those lots (nos.67-75 and 99) consisted of multiple items that were divided and sold separately at the time of the sale. Aside from oil paintings, there were six lots of paintings in enamel, seven lots of boxes decorated with paintings, six lots of drawings and pastels followed by individual lots of prints, a terracotta relief, alabaster vases and a final lot with frames, porcelain and miscellaneous objects.
No owner is referred to in the catalogue, but the presiding expert, J.B.P. Lebrun, has annotated the title page of the AAP copy of the catalogue (which belonged to him) with the names: "Denoor, Verdun, Fabre &c.", followed by the word "marchands." The first of these (but spelled Dennoor) had also been associated with two sales held by Lebrun on March 14 ff. and April 5/7 of the same year, but his name appears to have been crossed through on the present catalogue. Verdun's name is also found in Lebrun's catalogue of December 26 ff., but nothing is known about him or his activity as a dealer. Lebrun's handwritten list of divided lots in the AAP copy of the catalogue does, however, identify at least some of the lots consigned by "Fabre." (Fabre's name is also inscribed on the FLNY copy of the catalogue, which may have belonged to Lebrun's younger brother, Alexandre-Joseph.) His name appears by lot no.70, which, according to the printed catalogue, consisted of eleven paintings (but which number twelve in Lebrun's list) divided into nine lots. Similarly, lot 67 apparently consisted of paintings consigned by the dealer Devouge, while lot 69 contained paintings belonging to a certain "Bouthes" [?] and lot 72 included the property of the dealer Galland.The remaining "division" lots, nos.68, 71, and 73-75, presumably also derived from individual dealers, but their names are not provided.
This leaves uncertain whether any of the items in the principal part of the catalogue were consigned by any of the dealers named above. Lot no.97, an anonymous terracotta relief depicting fauns and a goat, is almost certainly identical with a relief said to be by François Duquesnoy that had been purchased by Galland at a sale in April 1795, and so he may have been its consigner at the present sale. He is also recorded as the buyer of lot 65 in the present sale, a moonlight landscape by Jean-François Huet, and so he may have been buying-in his own property. Fabre is given as the buyer of two lots (nos.18 and 22) which may have been his property. A painting by Breenbergh (lot 15) had been knocked down to Alexandre-Joseph Lebrun in 1794, suggesting that it, and perhaps other lots in the sale, were the property of the two brothers. However, the evidence for any of these identifications is too tentative to allow any firm conclusions.
The state of the Parisian art market being very tenuous in 1797, it is not surprising that the results of this sale were unremarkable, although a few lots did well. It would appear that the sale consisted primarily of relatively minor items that were being sold from dealers' stock, but lot 47, a pair of landscapes by Dietrich, was bought by the dealer Roëttiers de Montaleau for 2501 francs, a figure matched only by the following lot by the same artist, a depiction of Christ Healing, a subject painted in many versions by the artist, which was sold for 1572 francs. A fourth scene showing the Baptism of the Eunuque by Dietrich brought 501 francs, making his by far the most successful paintings in the sale. A signed and dated Mediterranean port scene by Asselyn was bought for 685 francs, and a few others also surpassed 300 francs. One of these, no.53, a sketch for the Assumption of the Virgin by Laurent de La Hyre, is now in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. (B. Fredericksen) | | Catalog Location(s) | AAP [photocopy in Provenance Index Sales Files] Expert's copy annot. by J.B.P. Lebrun with all buyers and prices as well as three pages of added lots.
FLNY Annot. with most buyers and all prices. Possibly belonged to J.A. Lebrun. Ex-LRB catalogue. | | See Also | Sale Contents | | | Art Sales Catalogues Online | | | Digitized Catalog - INHA | | | Digitized Catalog - Frick | | | |
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