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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Jan 28, 2010 | Sotheby's | New York | Important Old Master Paintings and Sculpture | 207 | $****** - ****** | A Young Woman Watering A Pot Of Flowers, "La Jeune Athénienne" |
paintings
72.4 x 61.5 cm (28.5 x 24.21 in)
oval, oil on canvas
signed and dated center right: Vien, 1762
Commissioned by the Abbot of Breteuil
sale X.., 5 May 1900 sold for 325 francs (see Mireur, loc. cit.)
Private Collection, France.
Salon, Paris, 1763, no. 30 (as "Une Femme qui arrofe un pot de Fleurs").
Livret du Salon de 1763, no. 30, (see Collection des livrets des anciennes expositions depuis 1673 jusqu'en 1800, ed. J. Guiffrey, Paris, 1869 – 1871, vol. XXII, p. 15, no. 30); D. Diderot, Salons, ed. J. Adhémar et J. Seznec, Oxford 1957-67, (1975), vol. I, pp. 165, 166, 210, 211; C-J. Mathon de la Cour, Lettres à Madame **sur les peintures les sculptures et les gravures, exposées dans le Sallon du Louvre en 1763, Paris, 1763, p. 20; Mercure de France, October 1763, I, p. 191; H. Coziac, "Vien, sa vie et son oeuvre", in Revue de France, Paris, 1865, p. 180ss; J. Locquin, La Peinture d'histoire en France de 1747 à 1785, Étude sur l'évolution des idées artistiques dans la seconde moitié du XVIII siècle, Paris 1912, reprinted 1978, pp.195 and 248; H. Mireur, Dictionnaire des Ventes d'Art faites en France et à l'étranger pendant les XVIIIme et XIXme siècles, Paris 1912, pp. 369; E. M. Bukdahl, Diderot, critique d'art, Copenhagen 1980, vol. I, p.77; T.W. Gaehtgens, J. Lugand, Joseph -Marie Vien. Peintre du Roi (1716-1809), Paris 1988, p. 174, cat. no. 191 (Oeuvre disparue), and p. 156, under no. 120.
