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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Jan 26, 2012 | Sotheby's | New York | Important Old Master Paintings and Sculpture | 49 | $****** - ****** | The Virgin Sewing, Accompanied By Four Angels, Known As La Couseuse | |||
Dec 4, 2006 | Rieunier & Associes | Paris | Dessins & Tableaux Anciens & Modernes | 9 | $****** - ****** | La couseuse |
paintings
28.5 x 21.5 cm (11.22 x 8.46 in)
oil on copper
signed lower right: G... eni
Most probably the painting described in the 1653 and 1661 inventories of the collection of Cardinal Jules Mazarin (born Giulio Raimondo Mazzarino, or Mazarini, 1602-1661), Chief Minister of France and successor to Cardinal Richelieu
By whom given to the Princesse de Conti
Thence to the Prince de Carignan
From whom acquired, along with the rest of his collection, by King Louis XV, France, 1742
Subsequently stolen from the French Royal Collections in 1775 and smuggled into England
Sir John Purling, Portland Place, London, before 1786
His deceased sale, London, John White, 16-17 February 1801, lot 103
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Where acquired for £997.10 by William Nathan Wright Hewett
His sales, London, Harry Phillips, 14-15 May 1819, lot 261, and 14-15 April 1826, lot 160, where it went unsold
Private Collection, France, by 2006
Anonymous sale, Paris, Rieunier & Associés, 4 December 2006, lot 9
there purchased by the present owners.
A. Félibien, Entretiens sur les views et les ouvrages des plus excellents peintres anciens et modernes, 1685, II, p. 207;; N. Lépicié, Catalogue raisonné des tableaux du roy, Paris 1754, II, p. 216;; A. Dezallier d'Argenville, Abrégé de la vie des plus fameux peintres, Paris 1762, II, p. 109;; A. Dezallier d'Argenville, Voyage pittoresque de Paris, Paris 1778, p. 335;; H. d'Orléans, duc d'Aumale, Inventaire de tous les meubles du cardinal Mazarin dressé en 1653 et publié d'après l'original dans les archives de Condé, London 1861, no. 78;; E. Bonnaffé, Dictionnaire des amateurs français au XVIIe siècle, Paris 1884, pp. 15, 72, 111;; J.G. de Cosnac, Les richesses de palais Mazarin, Paris 1884, no. 925;; F. Engerand, Inventaire des collections de la Couronne. Inventaire des tableaux du roy rédigé en 1709 et 1710 par Nicolas Bailly publié pour la première fois avec les additions et de notes, Paris 1899, p. 532;; F. Engerand, Inventaire des tableaux commandés et achetés par la direction des bâtiments du roi (1702-1792), Paris 1901, p. 532;; K. Martin, Jacob Burckhardt und die Karlsruhe Galerie, Karlsruhe-Baden 1941, engraving by Gerard Edelinck reproduced pl. V;; D.S. Pepper, Guido Reni, Oxford 1984, pp. 219-220, under no. 22;; A. Brejon de Lavergnée, L'inventaire Le Brun de 1683: la collection des tableaux de Louis XIV, Paris 1987, pp. 432-433 (as lost);; B. Fredericksen, The Index of Paintings sold in the British Sales during the Nineteenth Century, 1801-1805, Oxford 1988, I, pp. 6-7;; S. Loire, Peintures italiennes du XVIIe siècle du musée du Louvre: 1. Bologne, Paris 1996, pp. 285-286 (as lost).; ENGRAVED:; G. Vallet (with the addition of a squared floor and a loincloth on the angel to the left);; G. Edelinck (with the addition of the Infant Jesus asleep in a cradle on the right side and a veil covering the Virgin's hair).
