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| Auction House | Skinner and Dyke -- from catalog: Mess. Skinner, Dyke, & Co. | | Sale Location | Premises, In the New Road, Mary-le-bone, London, England, UK | | Seller(s) | from catalog: Truchsessian Gallery | | Lugt Number | 7072 | | No. of Painting Lots | 239 | | Notes | This was the second of three sales of the early pictures from the so-called Truchsessian collection. The first had been held on Mar.27/29 (no.380) and the last took place on May 22/23 (no.410). As before, the prices reached by the individual lots were apparently much better than expected from a collection that had been rather critically received (see Br-264). Many lots brought well above average sums and a few exceeded £100. The highest amounts were paid for a Susannah and the Elders by Guercino (£315) and a sketch supposedly by Correggio for the Dresden Adoration of the Shepherds (£262.10), both of which were among the 18 pictures bought by the Viennese banking house Fries, creditors of Count Truchsess, the owner of the collection. All but one of these were put up for sale four years later on June 2, 1810 (no.779) at which time they were sold for a fraction of what was paid on this day. The Correggio, for instance, which was presumably a copy, was sold for 60 guineas. (B. Fredericksen) | | Catalog Location(s) | VAL [annotations used in Sales Contents] Annot. by the dealer Woodin with some buyers and all prices.
CIL [annotations used in Sales Contents; photocopy in Provenance Index Sales Files] Annot. in pencil by J. Galpine with a few prices as well as a few notes giving the approximate dimensions.
EBNP Not annot.
BLO Not annot. | | Photocopies | RKDH (of VAL), and BIB, NGL and RKDH (all of CIL) | | See Also | Sale Contents | | | Art Sales Catalogues Online | | | |
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