| | | | | | | | Document | Sale Catalog F-A211 | |
| Sale Location | sur les lieux, Hôtel de La Ferté, rue Richelieu, Paris, France | | Seller(s) | Gaignat, Louis-Jean
from catalog: feu Monsieur Gaignat, ancien Secrétaire du Roi, Receveur des Consignations | | Expert | Remy, Pierre
Poirier, Simon-Philippe | | Lugt Number | 1724 and 1734 | | Notes | Catalogue was printed and dated 1768. HLSM has 2 volumes of Gaignat's book sale supplement and pasted in the back of the 2nd vol. are totals for the Gaignat sales: the books totaled 225124.18 and the tableaux, bronzes, porcelaines, etc. 308490, totaling 533614.4. IFP gives total for paintings as: 208,459.1; total for bronzes as: 10,133.19; for porcelain etc: 78,563: grand total: 297,156 BNP III has totals: 86,825.5; BNP IV has totals: 89,168.16. RKDH has totals: lst part 218429.1 (or 19117.5 ?) ; 2nd part 306,505.17, ARP I gives totals as 218429.1 BPG gives totals as 303245.
Includes the vacations MPh gives the total as 216,129.18. plus the second part with a total of 303,785.15.
Dou's "The Kitchen Maid" was purchased by Voyer d'Argenson from W. Lormier's collection in 1748 (nr. 9); appears in Voyer's catalogue of paintings in 1749; this painting then ends up in Gaignat's collection where it was sold in 1769 to Caroline Louise, Margravine of Baden for her collection in Karlsruhe (now Karlsruhe, Staatliche Kunsthalle). Lormier's 3 other Dou paintings, 2 female nudes and Male Nude (nrs. 2-4 Hermitage, St. Petersburg) also ended up in Gaignat's possession (via Voyer) where they were purchased by Catherine the Great. Descamps described the Dou works. Metsu's "Woman washing her hands" also took this same route, passing from the Hoogenbergh sale in 1743 to Lormier, as a pendant to ter Borch's "The glass of lemonade" (from the Hasselaer sale in 1742), then the two continued to hang as a pair in the collections of Voyer, Gaignat and the duc de Choiseul. In 1772 they were separated, and the ter Borch ended up in St. Petersburg and the Metsu remained in French collections. Ter Borch's "The glass of lemonade" (now in the Hermitage) appeared in the Gaignat 1768 sale, nr. 21; duc de Choiseul 1772 sale, nr. 25; Choiseul-Praslin 1793 sale, nr. 104; Choiseul sale, 1808, nr. 18; Paris sale, 1812 Jan. 22, nr. 23; Empress Josephine collection, Malmaison; in 1814 in the Hermitage (881).
Lot 52, Huysum "Flowers" is possibly identical to the Lormier collection painting, which then went to the Voyer d'Argenson collection.
Murillo's Rest on the Flight into Egypt was purchased by Denis Diderot for the Hermitage (no.
For a detailed discussion of the collection and the sale see E. Dacier, Catalogues de ventes et livrets de salons illustrés par Gabriel de Saint-Aubin, XL, 1921. | | Catalog Location(s) | MPh Expert's copy, annot. with all buyers and prices on interleaved pages as well as many notes. Reference is made for each lot's place in the collector's inventory, and there is a contract specifying Remy's obligations, with lists of expenses, etc. It belonged later to Sir Robert Peel.
AAP I Annot. with all buyers and prices on interleaved pages as well as two pages of added lots. The catalogue proper is also annot. in pencil with buyers, prices and notes. The title page, introduction and pp.25-72 are bound out of order.
FLNY Annot. with all buyers and prices on interleaved pages. There are also some added lots of decorative objects.
BPG I Not annot., but there is a separate list with all buyers and prices. It probably belonged to the dealer J.B.P. Lebrun and perhaps earlier to his father Pierre.
PPP Annot. with most buyers and prices as well as many notes. The annotations are mostly by Gabriel de St.Aubin, who has also added sketches of most lots, but some of the notes are by a much later hand.
RKDH [photocopy in Provenance Index Sales Files] Annot. in ink and pencil with most buyers and all prices. There are at least two annotators, one of whom was the dealer Simonet, who owned the catalogue in 1857.
JPGM I [photocopy in Provenance Index Sales Files] Annot. with most buyers and all prices.
MB [photocopy in Provenance Index Sales Files] Annot. in ink and pencil with most buyers and prices. Formerly LRB.
MMNY First part annot. with most buyers and all prices as well as a few notes. The second part has all prices. The annotations generally correspond to those in RKDH
BML I Part I is annot. with many buyers and all prices, perhaps by two hands, some of the latter in red ink. Part II has only the prices. There also a few notes.
JPGM II [photocopy in Provenance Index Sales Files] Annot. with many buyers and all prices.
BPG II Annot. with many buyers and all prices. It probably belonged to the dealer J.B.P. Lebrun and perhaps earlier to his father Pierre.
ARP I Annot. with many buyers and all prices, many of which are cut off.
AAP II Annot. with most buyers and prices for lots 1-81.
AAP III Annot with a few buyers and most prices.
BNP I Annot. with all prices, as well as a few notes and added lots, the latter in pencil.
BNP II Annot. in two or more hands with all prices and a few notes.
AKW Annot. with all prices and a few notes. It belonged to M. König.
EBNP I Annot. with all prices.
BNP III Annot. with all prices.
BNP IV Annot. with all prices.
BNP V Annot. with all prices.
ARP II Annot. with all prices.
IFP Annot. with all prices.
LP I Annot. in pencil with all prices.
NGL Annot. with all prices.
MA Annot. by Soullié with all prices.
WCL Annot. with all prices.
BRB Annot. with most prices and many notes about previous and later provenance.
EBNP II Annot. with most prices. Formerly Bibliothèque du Roi at Fontainebleau.
LP II Annot. in ink and pencil with most prices.
ESP I Not seen, but said to be annot. with prices.
ESP II Not annot, but said to be annot. with prices.
BMB Present location uncertain, but probably same as ESP I or II. According to Lugt annot. with prices.
BG Not found. 2009. Supposedly annot. with prices.
RMA Annot. with a few prices for the porcelain only. The annotator may be Soullié.
JPGM III Not annot.
BML II Not annot.
ARP III Not annot. except lots 1-61 are marked with the day they were to be sold.
BMLy I Not annot.
BMLy II Not annot.
BVR Not annot. It belonged to conte Leopoldo Cicognara.
TBL Present location unknownn. According to Lugt not annot.
TSP 2010. Not seen, but apparently not annot. Formerly HP.
Marlborough 2001. Not seen, but supposedly not annotated.
AICh Not seen.
CAIW Not seen.
ADP Not seen.
KBK Not seen. | | See Also | Sale Contents | | | Art Sales Catalogues Online | | | Digitized Catalog - INHA | | | Digitized Catalog - GRI | | | |
|
|