ANNE VALLAYER-COSTER | STILL LIFE OF ROSES, SNOWBALLS, PEONIES AND HYACINTHS IN A GLASS ON A LEDGE

Auction Closed

October 14, 09:49 PM GMT

Estimate

100,000 - 150,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

ANNE VALLAYER-COSTER

Paris 1744 - 1818

STILL LIFE OF ROSES, SNOWBALLS, PEONIES AND HYACINTHS IN A GLASS ON A LEDGE


signed lower right: Ver Coster

oil on canvas, an oval

12¾ by 10⅝ in.; 32 by 27 cm.

Louis Cournerie (1820-c. 1891), Paris;

His estate sale, Paris, Féral, 8-9 December 1891, lot 34;

Doistau collection, Paris;

His sale, Paris, Hotel Drouot, 5-6 March 1937, lot 32;

Private collection, Paris, by 1970;

Anonymous sale, Paris, Drouot Montaigne, 12 December 1988, lot 67;

With Stair Sainty Matthiesen Gallery, New York;

From whom acquired circa 1989. 

Paris, Galerie Cailleux, Peintures de la Réalité au XVIIIe siècle, 1945, no. 37;

Paris, Galerie Cailleux, Fleurs et fruits, présentation de peintures des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles, 1968, no. 26;

Paris, Galerie Cailleux, Eloge de l'ovale, 1975, no. 42. 

M. Roland Michel, Anne Vallayer Coster, Paris 1970, cat. no.17, p. 111, reproduced p. 109 (possibly also cat. no. 21, listed as lost);

E. Kahng and M. Roland Michel, Anne Vallayer-Coster: Painter to the Court of Marie-Antoinette, Dallas 2002, cat. no. 125, p. 216, reproduced. 

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