The Collection of Ambassador and Mrs. Felix Rohatyn

The Collection of Ambassador and Mrs. Felix Rohatyn

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

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October 14, 09:49 PM GMT

Estimate

100,000 - 150,000 USD

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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. 

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. 

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.