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Alexandre-François Desportes

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.

Please note the updated provenance for the present lot.

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.