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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Jul 3, 2024 | Sotheby's | London | Old Master & 19th Century Paintings Evening Auction | 22 | $****** - ****** | A Mediterranean port view with figures | |||
Jan 11, 1991 | Christie's | New York | Important Paintings by Old Masters | 73 | Estimates not disclosed | Mediterranean port View with figures | |||
Dec 6, 1987 | Sotheby's | Monaco | 19th C and Old Master Paintings | 94 | Estimates not disclosed | Scene de port mediterraneen |
paintings
111.5 x 158.5 cm (43.9 x 62.4 in)
oil on canvas
signed, dated and inscribed lower right, on the stone wall: Joseph Vernet / Roma ⋅ 1747
Commissioned by Cardinal Frédéric Jérôme de La Rochefoucauld (1701-1757), Rome, 1747;
Acquired by Monseigneur de Philippau, France (according to an old inscription on the reverse, now covered by relining);
Elisabeth-Olympe-Louise-Armande-Félicité du Vigier, Marquise de Flamarens (1752-1835), Château de Villiers-les-Maillets, Saint-Barthélemy;
Probably by descent to her granddaughter, Elisabeth-Caroline Barnet, Comtesse de Mastin (1801-1865), wife of Philippe-Auguste-Armand-Maurice de Mastin, Comte de Mastin ( b. 1780), Château de Villiers-les-Maillets;
By descent to their daughter, Alix de Mastin, Comtesse de Mastin (1825-1891), Château de Villiers-les-Maillets;
By descent to her cousin, Étienne de Bessot, Comte de Lamothe (1868-1939), Château de Villiers-les-Maillets, 5 June 1922;
Thence by descent;
Until sold, Monte Carlo, Sotheby"s, 6 December 1987, lot 94, for 888,000 French francs;
Anonymous sale ("The Property of a Private Collector"), New York, Christie"s, 11 January 1991, lot 73, for $550,000;
Where acquired by the present owner.
F. Ingersoll-Smouse, Joseph Vernet, Peintre de Marines 1714-1789 , 2 vols, Paris 1926, vol. I, p. 50, nos 188-89 (as one of two marines commissioned by Cardinal de la Rochefoucauld: " Commandées par le Cardinal de la Rochefoucauld, à cent cinquante écus les deux [...]").
Property from a Distinguished European Collection
Claude-Joseph Vernet
Avignon 1714-1789 Paris
A Mediterranean port view with figures
signed, dated and inscribed lower right, on the stone wall: Joseph Vernet / Roma ⋅ 1747
oil on canvas
unframed: 111.5 x 158.5 cm.; 43⅞ x 62⅜ in.
framed: 134 x 182.7 cm.; 52¾ x 72 in.
