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Nicolas-Antoine TAUNAY (1755-1830)
Italian landscape with aq…
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Lot no. 174
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Nicolas-Antoine TAUNAY (1755-1830)
Italian landscape with aqueduct, probably the heights of Taomirne.
Oil on canvas
56.4 x 45.5 cm
Circa 1800
Bears on the back a handwritten label in German:
"came by inheritance from my parents' collection...Landscape by Tonnay...appraised 400 francs....Lilla Deichmann Schaaffhausen'"
Lilla [Elisabeth] Deichmann Schaaffhausen (1811-1888), born into a family of German bankers, married a banker, Wilhelm Deichamnn.
In 1853, they acquired a baroque castle (Deichmannsaue) as a summer residence near Bonn.
She was a woman of character: not only did she have 11 children, but she also ran a famous salon, receiving artists and celebrities such as the Kronprinz of Prussia and his wife, Clara Schumann, Franz Liszt and Max Bruch. In their home, Brahms composed his Piano Sonata op. 1 in 1753. In addition, as the first woman to study ophthalmology, she directed the Bad-Ems hospital during the 1870 war, and later the Jagdschloss Waberne hospital near Kasssel. In 1878, she became a citizen of Lichtenstein, lived in Vaduz and then returned to Germany. She undoubtedly had a collection, which remains to be studied; but she seems to have loved French painting during this period, as she also owned a painting by Jean-Louis Demarne, which was sold at Christie's in London (10 July 2002, no. 84, sold for £19,120).
Madame Claudine Lebrun Jouve has confirmed the authenticity of this work.
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