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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