Old Masters Day Sale, including portrait miniatures from the collection of the late Dr Erika Pohl-Ströher
Old Masters Day Sale, including portrait miniatures from the collection of the late Dr Erika Pohl-Ströher
Property of the late Dr Erika Pohl-Ströher (1919-2016)
Jacques Thouron
Vulcan presenting arms to Venus for Aeneas, circa 1785
Lot Closed
December 9, 04:51 PM GMT
Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property of the late Dr Erika Pohl-Ströher (1919-2016)
Jacques Thouron
Geneva 1740 - 1789 Paris
Vulcan presenting arms to Venus for Aeneas, circa 1785
enamel on copper, gilt-metal frame
11 by 13.2 cm., 4⅜ by 5¼ in.
With Edouard Jonas (1883-1961), Paris and New York, by 1926;
Mr and Mrs Isaac D. Levy (1868-1934), New York, 1929,
By family descent;
Sale, Geneva, Sotheby's, 25 May 1993, lot 45
Mr and Mrs Isaac D. Levy (1868-1934), New York, 1929,
By family descent;
Sale, Geneva, Sotheby's, 25 May 1993, lot 45
M. Friesen, Französische Miniaturen 1770-1880, Darmstadt 2001, p. 429, fig. 359
Thouron almost certainly based this enamel on the engraving by Jacques-Claude Danzel (1737-1809) published in 1783 after François Boucher's painting of 1757, now in the Louvre, Paris (inv. no. 2707). The plaque, like the engraving, shows the painting in reverse. As Thouron was working from this source, he was free to improvise on the colouring - thus Venus' draperies are blue rather than apricot-coloured.