LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

38.50 in. (97.80 cm.) (height) by 51.06 in. (129.70 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed and dated 'Desportes. / 1711.' (lower right)

Exhibited:

Paris, Musée du Petit Palais, Le Paysage français de Poussin à Corot, May-June 1925, no. 91.

Literature:

G. de Lastic, Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint et dessiné de François Desportes, unpublished thesis, L'Ecole de Louvre, 1969, no. 461. P. Jacky, 'Alexandre-François Desportes (1661-1743): quatre dessus-de-porte provenant du château de Bercy entrent à Chambord', Revue du Louvre, 1996, p. 64, no. 3. P. Jacky, François Desportes (1661-1743), doctoral dissertation, Université de Paris-Sorbonne Paris 4, 1999, IV, p. 622. P. Jacky and G. de Lastic, Desportes: Catalogue raisonné, Saint-Rémy-en-l'Eau, 2010, p. 130, no. P 514, illustrated.

Provenance:

Professor Thomas Bodkin (1887-1961), Dublin, by 1925; his sale, Sotheby's, London, 11 November 1959, lot 30, where acquired for £680 by the following with Old Masters Galleries, London. Anonymous sale; Christie's, New York, 6 April 2006, lot 74. with Arader Galleries, New York, where acquired by the present owner on 30 November 2006.