LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

62.72 in. (159.30 cm.) (height) by 50.31 in. (127.80 cm.) (width)

Exhibited:

Possibly Paris, Salon, 1742, no. 17

Literature:

Possibly Abbé P.-F. Guyot Desfontaines, 'Expositions des Tableaux de l'Académie de peintures et de Sculptures', in Observations sur les écrits modernes. vol. xxix, 29 August 1742, letter ccccxxxv, p. 354 (ms. in the Bibliothèque Nationale Impr., Z56955),Possibly 'Catalogue abregé des ouvrages .. exposés dans le Salon du Louvre, le 25 Août dernier ...', in Mercure de France, 1742, p. 2056, no. 2,Possibly, A. Dezallier d'Argenville, Voyage pittoresque de Paris; ou indication de tout ce qu'il y a de plus beau dans cette grande ville en peinture, sculpture & architecture, 5th ed., Paris, 1770, p. 131 (where the painting is described as in Blondel de Gagny's collection),Possibly l. Reau, 'Carle Vanloo (1705-1765)', in Archives de l'art Français, vol. xix, 1935-37, pp. 39 and 77, no. 14 (under lost paintings)

Provenance:

Possibly Carle Vanloo (listed in his posthumous inventory, dated 5 August 1765, no. 91, priced 36 livres),Possibly his sale, Paris, Basan, 12 September 1765, lot 3, for 632 livres,Possibly The Collection of Augustin Blondel de Gagny, Paris, his sale, Paris, Remy, 10-24 December 1776, lot 239, for 1200 livres to Colignon (circa 168 x 141 cm.)