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Premium Attributed to Pierre Louis DUMESNIL the younger (1698-1781)
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Attributed to Pierre Louis DUMESNIL the younger (1698-1781)
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Lot no. 28
Description
Attributed to Pierre Louis DUMESNIL the younger (1698-1781)
The Indiscreet or the Sleeper
Canvas
Height 47 cm; Width: 38 cm
(Damage to the frame.)
Provenance:
- Possibly Remond sale, Paris, 6 July 1778, no. 72: "J.B.F. de Troy. Une dame endormie sur un canapé, un homme de robe la regarde; ce tableau peint sur toile porte 16 pouces de haut, sur 13 de large" (H: 0.43; W: 0.35).
- Sale of the collection of Baron Pichon, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 29 March - 10 April 1897, no. 1348 (as De Troy,
no first name)
- Galerie Yves Perdoux in Paris in 1928 (as J.-F. de Troy). (Advertisement in Le Gaulois artistique, 7 April 1928, p. 160,
ill.)
- Collection of Robert Henry Edward, Baronet Abdy (1896-1976), then by succession until today.
Exhibition: Paris, Musée Carnavalet, exhibition La vie parisienne au XVIIIe, 20 March-30 April 1928, p. 25, no. 98.
(as J.-F. de Troy)
Bibliography:
- Gaston Brière, Jean-François de Troy, Les peintres français du XVIIIe siècle. Histoire des vies et catalogue des oeuvres, 1930, t. II, p.46 (painting rejected)
- Christophe Leribault, Jean François de Troy (1679-1752), Paris, 2002, p. 426, cat. no. PR. 29 (painting rejected)
Related work: another version of this composition with numerous variants and a weaker version has been
reported (London sale, Christie's, 2 July 1997, no. 468; as a circle by Jean-François de Troy).
Expert: Cabinet TURQUIN - Stéphane PINTA.
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