Old Master Paintings & Works on Paper Day Auction
Old Master Paintings & Works on Paper Day Auction
Property from a Swiss Private Collection
Le retour du bal masqué (The return from the masquerade ball)
No reserve
Lot Closed
July 4, 10:53 AM GMT
Estimate
6,000 - 8,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property from a Swiss Private Collection
Follower of Anne Vallayer-Coster
Le retour du bal masqué (The return from the masquerade ball)
oil on canvas
unframed: 63.1 x 76 cm.; 24⅞ x 29⅞ in.
framed: 74.7 x 87.7 cm.; 29⅜ x 34½ in.
Albert Besnard, Paris;
Private collection, Paris, by 1970;
Thence by descent to the present owner.
M. Tourneux, 'Une exposition rétrospective d’art féminin', in Gazette des Beaux Arts, I, 1908, pp. 292–93, reproduced (as Anne Vallayer Coster);
M. Roland Michel, Anne Vallayer-Coster 1744–1818, Paris 1970, p. 191, no. 277 (under rejected attributions, as possibly executed in the 19th century by a follower of Anne Vallayer Coster).
Paris, Lyceum Club, Le femmes peintres, 1908.
An attribution to the French artist Louis Tessier (circa 1719–1781), whose œuvre consists mostly of still-life compositions with elements of architecture and design, has been suggested.1
1 Compare the present work with the following canvases attributed to the artist sold New York, Sotheby's, 30 January 2020, lot 210; https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2019/master-paintings-sculpture-day-sale/attributed-to-louis-tessier-allegory-of-the-arts
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