Old Masters
Old Masters
Property from a European Private Collection
Lot Closed
June 11, 03:52 PM GMT
Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property from a European Private Collection
NOËL HALLÉ
Paris 1711 - 1781
PORTRAIT OF A WOMAN, SAID TO BE GENEVIÈVE LORRY, DRESSED AS A SAVOYARDE, HOLDING AN INFANT IN A CRIB, SITTING IN A COURTYARD, TOGETHER WITH A BEGGING DOG
signed and dated upper right: 1757 / HALLE.
oil on canvas
canvas: 25¾ by 21¼ in.; 65.8 by 54 cm.
framed: 36 by 31½ in.; 91.4 by 80 cm.
Anonymous sale, Paris, 2 June 1781, lot 32;
M. de Nanteuil sale, 1 March 1792, lot 9;
Alphonse Lambert Eugène Ridder de Stuers (1841-1919), Ambassador of the Netherlands to Spain and France, Paris;
Probably, by descent to his daughter, Marguerite I.V.E. Gräfin von Oberndorff-de Stuers (1878–1930), Lausanne;
De Steurs sale, probably her deceased sale, Amsterdam, Frederick Muller & Co., 12-15 April 1932, lot 279 (sold Fl.250);
Comtesse Elisabeth Oberndorff (step-daughter of the above);
Her sale, London, Sotheby's, 25 April 1956, lot 73;
With Galerie Leger, London, 1956;
With Galerie Leger, Brussels, 1957;
Anonymous sale, Paris, Piasa, 25 June 2004, lot 47;
Anonymous sale, Zurich, Koller, 28 March 2014, lot 3263.
E. Bellier & L. Auvray, Dictonnaire general des artistes de l'ecole francaise depuis l'origine des arts, Paris 1882-1885, vol. I, p. 738;
Estourent, La famille des Halle, Paris 1905, p. 148, nos. 97-8;
N. Willk-Brocard, Une dynastie: Les Halle, Paris 1995, p. 393, no. 69b, reproduced p. 129.
Paris, Salon 1757, no. 27.