The Collection of Ambassador and Mrs. Felix Rohatyn
The Collection of Ambassador and Mrs. Felix Rohatyn
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October 14, 09:49 PM GMT
Estimate
100,000 - 150,000 USD
Lot Details
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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.