A Scholar Collects
A Scholar Collects
Still Life of the Remnants of a Meal with a Lunging Cat
Auction Closed
January 31, 03:58 PM GMT
Estimate
200,000 - 300,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Alexandre-François Desportes
Champigneulle 1661 - 1743 Paris
Still Life of the Remnants of a Meal with a Lunging Cat
indistinctly signed and dated lower left: Desportes / 17[..]
oil on canvas
canvas: 29 ⅛ by 36 ⅜ in.; 74.0 by 92.4 cm.
framed: 39 ¼ by 46 ¾ in.; 99.7 by 118.7 cm.
Perhaps François Abraham Mouchard (1712-1782), Paris;
Perhaps his posthumous sale, Paris, Pierre Vallet and François Joullain, 6 December 1782, lot 2;1
Jean Locquin (1879-1949), Paris;
Pierre Viaux (b. 1945);
With Galerie Fabienne Fiacre, Paris;
With Etienne Bréton, Saint Honoré Art Consulting, Paris;
From whom acquired by the present collector, 2008.
G. de Lastic and P. Jacky, Desportes, Catalogue Raisonné, Saint-Rémy-en-L'Eau 2010, vol. II, p. 178, cat. no. P 662bis.
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