Master Paintings Part I

Master Paintings Part I

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Property from a Distinguished Canadian Private Collection (Lots 113, 136, 143, 150)

Anne Vallayer-Coster

Still life of roses in a glass vase, with grapes beside

Auction Closed

January 26, 05:50 PM GMT

Estimate

150,000 - 200,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Distinguished Canadian Private Collection (Lots 113, 136, 143, 150)

Anne Vallayer-Coster

Paris 1744 - 1818

Still life of roses in a glass vase, with grapes beside


signed and dated lower right: Vallayer-Coster / an 12 

oil on canvas

canvas: 12¾ by 10½ in.; 32.5 by 26.5 cm.

framed: 19¼ by 16¾ in.; 48.9 by 42.7 cm.

Louis Cournerie (1820-c. 1891), Paris;

His estate sale, Paris, Féral, 8-9 December 1891, lot 40;

Eugène Féral (1832-1900), Paris;

His estate sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 22-24 April 1901, lot 65;

De Chaudenay, Paris;

With Galerie Cailleux, Paris;

Anonymous sale, Monaco, Sotheby's, 29 November 1986, lot 365;

Roberto Polo, Paris;

By whom sold, New York, Sotheby's, 11 January 1990, lot 96;

Where acquired by Richard Green, London;

From whom acquired by the present collector.

M. Roland Michel, Anne Vallayer-Coster, Paris 1970, cat. nos. 84 (with correct early provenance, but as dated 1794?) and 86 (as lost since 1804);
E. Hardouin-Fugier and E. Grafe, French Flower Painters of the 19th century, London and New York 1989, p. 377, reproduced;
E. Kahng and M. Roland Michel, Anne Vallayer-Coster: Painter to the Court of Marie-Antoinette, exhibition catalogue, New Haven 2002, cat. no. 96, p. 213, reproduced.