| | | | | | | | Document | Sale Catalog F-996 | |
| Sale Location | sur les lieux, en sa maison, rue St.-Joseph, No.4, Paris, France | | Seller(s) | Thévenin, Catherine, Mlle.
from catalog: Mlle Thévenin | | Expert | Paillet, Charles | | Commissaire-Priseur | Bonnefons Lavialle, Benoit-Antoine | | Lugt Number | 9703 | | Notes | BML is inscribed on the tp: "Na divers articles n'ont pas été mis en vente".
C. Aycaguer writes: "Mademoiselle Catherine Thévenin était la requérante de cette vente qui eut lieu à son domicile, 4 rue Saint-Joseph. Un autre vendeur est mentionné sur la chemise, il s'agit d'un certain M. D. La vente comprenait une centaine de tableaux, des porcelaines et des objets de curiosité et des objets d'art. L'expert de cette vente fut M. Charles Paillet, peintre et expert de la chambre de MM. les commissaires-priseurs. La plus haute enchère, 2700 francs, fut prononcée sur le lot n. 54, deux vases en porcelaine de Céladon, adjugé à M. Paillet. Parmi les plus hautes enchères, deux tableaux de Greuze adjugés tous les deux à M. Lafontaine pour 2400 francs et 1277 francs. Les trois vacations recueillirent un total de 38731,45 francs dont 28948,7 francs pour Madame Thévenin et 9782,75 francs pour M. D. Le catalogue n'est ni mentionné ni joint, mais le procès verbal comprend des numéros de lots qui correspondent au catalogue." The "chemise du catalogue" is not preserved at the Getty and there is no mention of "M. D." in the procs-verbal. We have not included him.
Many of the paintings had been acquired at two Lebrun sales in 1795, others in 1797, 1803, 1809 and 1814. She seems to have favored Lebrun.throughout. The catalogue is unusual in that the earlier provenance is often mentioned, but in some cases it is also incorrect, leaving it unclear whether these were simply mistakes or deliberate mis-repreesentations. | | Catalog Location(s) | AP [photocopy in Provenance Index Sales Files] Procès-verbal without a printed catalogue. Includes buyers and prices.
VAL [photocopy in Provenance Index Sales Files] Annot. with many buyers and most prices.
BML [photocopy in Provenance Index Sales Files] Annot. with many buyers and most prices.
RKDH II Annot. in pencil with some buyers and many prices. The porcelain lots are especially well annot. It probably belonged to the dealer Cogniet.
RKDH I [photocopy in Provenance Index Sales Files] Annot. with a few buyers and most prices, especially for the paintings.
ESP II Annot. with a few buyers and many prices.
ESP I Annot. with a few buyers and many prices for the paintings only.
BMB Present location uncertain, but probably same as ESP I. According to Lugt annot. with prices for the paintings.
MBB Annot. with most prices. A few buyers have been added by a modern hand. Formerly RKDH.
FLNY Annot. with most prices.
AAP [photocopy in Provenance Index Sales Files] Not annot.
BNP Not annot.
LP I Not annot.
LP II Not annot.
NGW Not annot. | | See Also | Sale Contents | | | Art Sales Catalogues Online | | | Digitized Catalog - Frick | | | |
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