LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

22.83 in. (58.00 cm.) (height) by 31.89 in. (81.00 cm.) (width)

Markings:

indistinctly inscribed on a plaque on the building to the right

Condition:

in an elaborate carved and gilt wood Gustavian frame

Exhibited:

Paris,. Salon , 1767, part of no. 124 ('Un Calme'

Literature:

Explications des Peintures, Sculptures et Gravures.. (Catalogue of the. Salon ), Paris 1767, p. 26, under no. 124 (reprinted New York & London 1977);. G. Göthe,. Tafvelsamlingen på Wanås , Stockholm 1895, p. 29, cat. no. 74 (as in the style of Claude-Joseph Vernet);. J. Seznec and J. Adhémar,. Diderot Salons , vol. III, 1767, Oxford 1963, p. 35;. I. Hasselgren,. Konstsamlaren Gustaf Adolf Sparre, 1746-1794. Hans studieresa, vaaning och konstsamling i Goeteborg , Goeteborg 1974, pp. 118, 121 and 127, reproduced p. 192;. P. Sanchez,. Dictionnaire des Artistes exposant dans les Salons à Paris et en Provence , Dijon 2004, vol. II, p. 1109

Provenance:

Count Gustav Philip Creutz, Swedish Minister in Paris, by whom lent to the Paris. Salon in 1767, and thus presumably acquired from the artist earlier that same year;. Sold or given to Gustaf Adolf Sparre when he visited Count Creutz in Paris in 1780, or following Creutz's return to Sweden in 1783;. Sparre inv. 1794, no. 53;. Anonymous sale, London, Sotheby's, 6 December 2007, lot 113 where acquired by the present owner