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Jacques de LESTIN (Troyes 1597 - 1661 Troyes)

The grammar

Oil on canvas, 117 x 80.5 cm

Jacques de LESTIN (Troyes 1597 - 1661 Troyes)

Astonomy

Canvas, 117 x 86 cm



PROVENANCE

- Maison des Carterons, le Ricey;

- Bourg-en Bresse sale, Kohn study, 25/11/90, series of seven works, lot n ° 66;

- Galerie Barnabé 2001;

- Private collection, Paris until 2010;

- Galerie Barnabé until 2011.



             Grammar and Astronomy come from a series of seven works dedicated to the liberal arts and intended to decorate the private house of the Carterons (the artist's family) in Le Ricey. Jacques de Lestin represented under the guise of allegorical figures, various members of his family. The paintings were long considered to have disappeared until their reappearance in 1990, then authenticated by Madame Chantal Rouquet, curator of the Museum of Troyes.



Acquired in 2011 by  the Museum of Bordeaux

Pierre GOBERT (Fontainebleau or Paris 1662 - 1744 Paris), circa 1712

Portrait of François III of Lorraine, future Duke of Lorraine,

gand-duke of Tuscany and Emperor, aged three (1708-1765)

Oil on canvas, 89.5 x 70 cm


PROVENANCE

- France, Sologne, private collection and by descent for several generations until 2016;

- Galerie Barnabé until 2017.



THE PATRON

            Born in Innsbruck and raised in exile at the court of the Hapsburgs in Austria, Duke Leopold (1679-1729), father of the sitter, did not recuperate full sovereignty of his Duchies of Lorraine and Bar until after the Treaty of Ryswick in 1697. The Emperor’s nephew by birth and that of Louis XIV by his marriage to Elisabeth-Charlotte of Orleans, Leopold I had an elevated idea of the majesty of his functions and the ostentation with which he should be surrounded, and didn’t hesitate to imitate the Sun King. During his thirty years reign, the country which had been devastated by a century of wars now recovered peace, prosperity, and the fine arts. Leopold created a Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture instituted a pension system which made it possible for artists to be trained in Rome, and invited – often at great expense – French and Italian musicians, architects, and painters who transformed his Lunéville residence into a second Versailles.
An indefatigable builder, Leopold had Jules Hardouin-Mansart, brought to Nancy, and then the Lyonnais painter Pierre Bourdict, Coysevox’ brother-in-law, and at the latter’s death, Germain Boffrand. To produce allegorical ceilings, history scenes and portraits, the duke turned to Parisians Jean-Baptiste Martin, “painter of the king’s conquests,” Jean-Baptiste Durupt from the Gobelins, Jean-Louis Guyon of the Academy of Saint Luke, and especially members of the Royal Academy: Jacques Van Schuppen and Pierre Gobert, who both arrived in 1707. 



Acquired in 2017 by the  Museum of château des Lumières, Lunéville

Ambroise Louis GARNERAY (Paris 1783 - 1857 Paris)

The Third Battle of Ouessant, May-June 1794

Signed and dated 1838 lower right, inscribed on the flag upper right

Oil on canvas (re-lined), 56 x 76.5 cm


PROVENANCE

- Private collection Neuilly sur Seine (Anonymous sale; Saint-Cloud, Le Floch, 02 October 2016, lot n ° 26);

- Galerie Barnabé until 2018.


EXHIBITION

- Salon of 1838, n ° 772 (the dimensions indicated are 80 by 100 cm with the frame)


BIBLIOGRAPHY

Catalog of the exhibition Louis Garneray 1783 - 1857 Painter, Writer, Adventurer, museums of Honfleur and Dunkirk in 1997, p. 104, 105 & 182



Acquired in 2018 by the Museum of Brest

Dirck METIUS (Avant 1600? - 1665 Alkmaar)

Cassandra's prediction

Oil on canvas, 80,8 x 64,2 cm
 
  

PROVENANCE 

 

- Jacques Favereau, circa 1625/1630;                   

- E. Pepper, Maple Lodge, Gosforth, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK, until 19 May 1967;   

- Christie’s Londres, 19 May 1967, lot 48 as Caron, sold to Mr. W. Goetz;   

- Private collection Mr. Newmann located the 9 September 1981 in customs for export to Switzerland;

- Swiss private collection until 2017, then by inheritance until 02 October 2018;   

- Galerie Barnabé until 2019.

 

BIBLIOGRAPHY                 

 - Inédit



Acquired in 2019 by the Louvre Museum, Paris


Nicolas MIGNARD (Troyes 1606 – 1668 Paris)

Portrait of Pierre-François Tonduti de Saint-Légier, circa 1658

Oil on canvas (relined), 42 x 34,2 cm

 

 

PROVENANCE

- Sale Sotheby’s Paris 16 june 2016, lot 13, as circle of Philippe de Champaigne.


BIBLIOGRAPHY

- Unpublished. For the engraving see in particular the catalog of the Nicolas Mignard's exhibition, Palais des Papes, 25 june – 15 october 1979 by Antoine Schnapper.


 

            Pierre-François Tonduti, sieur de Saint-Légier (1583-1669), belonged to the Avignon's nobility and became in 1666 knight of the order of Saint-Michel.  We owe him books on law and astronomy and he was among the correspondents of Nicolas de Peiresc and Pierre Gassendi. 

The proof engraved after a drawing by François de Poilly (1623-1693), dated 1659 and annotated «PETRUS FRANCISCUS TONDUTUS SANLEGERIUS IC AVENIONENSIS * ANNO DOMINI M. DC. LIX. » confirms the identification of the model. 



Sold in 2022 : Aguttes sale of june 28, 2022, lot 31 ; acquired in aftersale by the Calvet Museum, Avignon.



PAULINE AUZOU (PARIS, 1775 - 1835)

A male academy

Black chalk, 60 x 46 cm



PROVENANCE

- Versailles, private collection since XIXth century and until 2013 (from a Pauline Auzou's drawing board kept in the house).


RELATED BIBLIOGRAPHY

i. Albertine Clément-Hémery, Memories of 1793 and 1794, Cambrai, 1832, p. 10.



Sold in 2022 : Aguttes, Neuilly, sale of june 28, 2022, lot 70 ; acquired in the sale by the Museum of Stockholm, Sweden.

Joseph CHRISTOPHE (Verdun 1662 – 1748 Paris)

Around 1718-20

Saint Philip converts Candace's eunuch

Oil on canvas, 72 x 59 cm



PROVENANCE


- Joseph Christophe, inventory after death on April 30, 1748, valued by Jean Restout, no. 23: « deux tableaux pendants sans bordure, La Conversion de saint Paul et L'Eunuque de Candace, prisés 4 livres »;

- Private collection Italy until 2024;

- Galerie Barnabé until 2026.



Acquired in 2026 by the Museum of VERDUN


Louis CHÉRON (Paris, 1655 – London, 1725)

Apollo and Daphne

Oil on canvas, H 106 x W 140 cm




PROVENANCE:

· Probably Mrs. Pickering (and others) sale, London, 7-14 February 1729 (Getty Provenance Index, Cat. Br-A296), no. 3 (Louis Chéron. Apollo and Daphne; without dimensions, in accordance with the sale catalogues of this period);


· Possibly William Powlett sale, London, 17-18 March 1743 (Lugt983 and 585b), no. 59 (this time pendant to a Leda by the same artist; Louis Chéron, Apollo and Daphne (still without dimensions)); sold for £5.50 (the pair);


· Probably George Michael Moser sale, London, 19-27 May 1783 (Getty Provenance Index, cat. Br-A1363), no. 81 (Louis Chéron. Apollo and Daphne); sold for £3.50;


· Private collection Rome;


. Private collection, France.



Acquired in 2026 by the Museum of CAEN