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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Oct 14, 2020 | Sotheby's | New York | The Collection of Ambassador and Mrs. Felix Rohatyn | 27 | $****** - ****** | Good | PUTTI PLAYING IN A LANDSCAPE |
paintings
14.6 x 11.5 cm (5.75 x 4.53 in)
oil on panel
Jean François de Troy (1679 - 1752);
His sale, Paris, Remy, 9 April - 5 May 1764, lot 133, along with pair, for 230 livres to Menageot (as François le Moine . . . Deux Tableaux des plus précieux de ce grand Peintre, ils représentent des enfans, les uns qui jouent avec les armes de Dieu Mars, & les autres avec des fleches; ils sont sur bois & portent chacun 4 pouces 9 lignes de haut, sur 4 pouces de large );
François Michel Harenc de Presles, Paris;
His sale, Paris, Lebrun, 16-24 April 1792, lot 55, along with pair, where probably withdrawn (as F. Le Moine);
His sale, Paris, Lebrun, 30 April 1795, lot 64, along with pair, to Joseph Alexandre Lebrun (as F. Le Moine);
Wakefield Christie-Miller (née Christy, d. 1898), Britwell Court, Burnham, Bucks;
Thence by descent to Sydney Richardson Christie-Miller (d. 1931);
Thence by descent to Major Samuel Vandeleur Christie-Miller, Salisbury, Clarendon Park;
Anonymous sale "The Property of a Lady", London, Sotheby"s, 7 July 1976, lot 50 (as A. Watteau);
There acquired by Faustus Gallery;
With Bob P. Haboldt & Co., New York;
From whom acquired.
J. Mathey, “Early Paintings of Watteau,” in Art Quarterly, 1956, p. 21-22 (as Antoine Watteau);
J. Lévy, "Antoine Watteau et Le Moyne," Gazette des Beaux-Arts, Paris 1958, p. 347-52;
F.J.B. Watson, “Watteau, Peintre Inconnu,” in The Burlington Magazine, vol. 104, no. 708, 1962, p. 126 (as Lemoyne);
G. Macchia and E.C. Montagni, L"opera completa di Watteau, Milan 1968, cat. 1 o -A;
J.L. Bordeaux, Francois Le Moyne and his Generation, Neuilly-sur-Seine 1984, p. 89, cat. no. P39, reproduced fig. 35;
J. Baillio, The Arts of France from Francois Ier to Napoleon Ier, New York 2005, p. 148, under cat. no. 41, note 4 (as François Lemoyne).
FRANÇOIS LEMOYNE
Paris 1688 - 1737
PUTTI PLAYING IN A LANDSCAPE
oil on panel
painted surface: 5⅜ by 4¼ in.; 13.5 by 10.6 cm.
with additions: 5¾ by 4½ in.; 14.6 by 11.5 cm.
