The European Art Sale Part II

Pierre-Nolasque Bergeret

Découverte du Laocoon (The Discovery of the Laocoon)

Lot Closed

January 29, 03:25 PM GMT

Estimate

10,000 - 15,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Pierre-Nolasque Bergeret

French

1782 - 1863

Découverte du Laocoon (The Discovery of the Laocoon)

signed PBergeret (center right, on pedestal)

oil on canvas

canvas: 28 by 41½ in.; 71 by 105.5 cm

framed: 38 by 51½ in.; 96.5 by 131 cm

Baron François-Benjamin-Marie Delessert (1780 - 1868)
His sale, Pillet Petit, Paris, 15-18 March 1869, lot 121
Ernest and Mary Jane Busk, San Francisco, California, circa 1960
Thence by descent to the present owners, 1991

Lucrecia N. el-Abd, Pierre-Nolasque Bergeret (1782-1863), unpublished Ph.D dissertation, New York, Columbia University, 1976, p. 221

Paris, Salon, 1835, no. 116

Catalogue note