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115 - French School, c. 1660, a follower of Philippe de CHAMPAIGNE…
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French School, c. 1660, a follower of Philippe de CHAMPAIGNE. The Last Supper. Oil on canvas. Height: 73.5 cm. Width: 136 cm. In the bottom left-hand corner, the coat of arms of Alexandre Pétau (c. 1592, Charenton-le-Pont – 1672) and Madeleine Broé (c. 1609–1680). Unframed. Shield on the left: the coat of arms of Alexandre Pétau (c. 1592, Charenton-le-Pont – 1672), appointed a councillor at the Parliament of Paris on 11 February 1628 in the Fifth Chamber of Inquiries and subsequently on 12 December 1661 in the Grand Chamber. His father, Paul Pétau, a distinguished collector, bequeathed to him in 1614 a collection of medals and a rich library, which he continued to expand. Upon his death, the manuscripts were purchased by Queen Christina of Sweden and the books were later sold in The Hague in 1722. Right-hand shield: the coat of arms of Madeleine Broé (c. 1609–1680), daughter of Bon Broé, President of Parliament, who married Alexandre Pétau on 4 February 1629 (Study XC, Maître Jean Bruneau). The manuscripts in this library (known as the Petaviani) were acquired between 1590 and 1659 (for those whose date of acquisition is known). Alexandre Pétau owned more than 1,800 of them in 1650. That year, he sold nearly 1,500 to Queen Christina of Sweden (through his librarian Isaac Vossius). Upon her death, the Queen’s collection passed to the Vatican Library, where a large proportion of the Petau family’s ancient volumes are now held. Some were retained by Isaac Vossius, whose heirs sold the collection to the University of Leiden Library. Towards the end of his life, Alexandre Petau owned a smaller collection of around 300 manuscripts and incunabula, and in 1669 Nicolas Clément purchased twenty-two of them for the King’s Library. After his death, the remainder of the collection (277 items according to the catalogue) was sold off in several instalments over a number of decades by his heirs, and a significant portion (eighty-eight) was acquired in 1720 by the Genevan bibliophile Ami Lullin, who, on his death (1756), bequeathed his collection to the Bibliothèque de Genève, where it forms the main collection of ancient manuscripts.
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Auction time 10/03/2026 at 2:00 PM
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