LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

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

Markings:

signed 'P. J. de Loutherbourg', l.r.; dated '1767', l.r.

Exhibited:

Paris, Salon, 1767, part of no. 124, 'Un Combat sur Terre'; Kristianstad, 1977, no. 24.

Literature:

Explication des Peintures, Sculptures et Gravures... (Catalog of the Salon), Paris 1767, p. 26, under no. 124 (reprinted New York & London 1977); Granberg, 1885-6, no. 34; Göthe, 1895, pp. 20-21, no. 39; J. Seznec & J. Adhémar, Diderot Salons, vol. III, 1767, Oxford 1963, pp. 35-6; Hasselgren, 1974, pp. 124, 127, 132, reproduced p. 180; P. Grate, French Paintings II Eighteenth Century (Catalog of the National Museum Stockholm), Stockholm 1994, pp. 196-7. no. 177, reproduced fig. ref. 1; 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 in the same year; Sold or given to Gustaf Adolf Sparre (1746-1794) when he visited Count Creutz in Paris in 1780, or following Creutz' return to Sweden in 1783: Not in Sparre's 1794 inventory, and presumably located at Kulla Gunnarstorp.