Lot 44
  • 44

Jean-Baptiste Perronneau

Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 EUR
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Description

  • Jean-Baptiste Perronneau
  • Portrait d'une pensionnaire du roi en costume de théâtre, tenant un loup
  • Huile sur toile, ovale
  • 73 x 59,1 cm

Provenance

Collection Camille Groult ;
Collection Jean Groult, 1934 ;
Galerie Wildenstein, 1952 ;
Collection André Meyer ;
Collection of the late André Meyer
, New York, Christie's, 26 octobre 2001, lot 126 ;
Ancienne collection Georges Bemberg

Exhibited

Paris, De Watteau à Prud'hon. Exposition organisée au profit de la Ligue nationale contre le taudis et de l'Entr'aide sociale batelière, du 11 au 31 mai 1956, Paris, Galerie Wildenstein, n°75

Literature

A. Flament, « La collection Groult », Supplément à L'Illustration, n°3386, 18 janvier 1908, p. 52 repr. "Ecole française" ;
L. Vaillat et P. Ratouis de Limay, J. B. Perronneau, 1715-1783, sa vie et son oeuvre, Paris, [1909], p. 145, n°169, "Mlle X*** tenant un loup" ; id. 1923, p. 241 ;
«De Watteau à Prud'hon»
in Gazette des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 11-31 mai 1956, n°75 repr. ;
D. d'Arnoult, Perronneau ca. 1715-1783, Paris, 2014, p. 217, n°33P repr.

Condition

On bare eye: The paintig is in an overall good condition. It has been relined et cleaned in the second part of the 20th century, thoroughly done. UNder UV lamp: We can notice a green uniform varnish. We notice a little restoration in the upper left corner of 7 cm long ans a small restoration on the top of the character head.
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