JEAN-BAPTISTE THÉODON (VENDREST, SEINE-ET-MARNE 1645 – 1713 PARIS), CIRCA 1677-1679
06.07.2023 14:30UTC +00:00
Classic
Startpreis
120000GBP £ 120 000
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| Veranstaltungsort | Vereinigtes Königreich, London |
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ID 990522
Los 29 | JEAN-BAPTISTE THÉODON (VENDREST, SEINE-ET-MARNE 1645 – 1713 PARIS), CIRCA 1677-1679
Schätzwert
£ 120 000 – 180 000
Flora or Spring
marble bust; on an associated square black marble socle; the reverse of the bust and socle each inscribed '3128'; the reverse of the bust with a carved fleur-de-lys to the lower left
18 in. (45.5 cm.) high; 24 5/8 in. (62.5 cm.) high, overall
Provenance
Private collection, Kent, Connecticut, their sale,
Stair Galleries, Hudson, New York, 21 April 2022, lot 185 (as a 'Continental carved marble bust emblematic of Spring, raised on a black marble socle, with a stylised fleur de lys mark on the reverse'),
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
Literature
F. de La Moureyre, ‘Jean-Baptiste Théodon, Buste de Flore, ou du Printemps: A newly rediscovered sculpture commissioned for King Louis XIV of France’, unpublished expertise, Paris, 5 December 2022.
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE
F. Souchal with F. de La Moureyre and H. Dumuis, French sculptors of the 17th and 18th centuries, The reign of Louis XIV, III M-Z, Oxford, 1987, pp. 287-304.
J-R. Gaborit ed., Musée du Louvre, Sculpture Française, II Renaissance et Temps Modernes, III, Paris, 1998 p. 457.
F. de La Moureyre, ‘Nouveaux regards sur quatre termes des saisons au Louvre’, L’objet d’art, DXXXIX, November 2017, pp. 52-57.
Special notice
This lot has been imported from outside of the UK for sale and placed under the Temporary Admission regime. Import VAT is payable at 5% on the hammer price. VAT at 20% will be added to the buyer’s premium but will not be shown separately on our invoice.
| Material: | Marmor, Stein |
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| Genre: | Allegorie |
| Herkunftsort: | Westeuropa, Frankreich, Europa |
| Kategorie des Auktionshauses: | Skulpturen |
| Material: | Marmor, Stein |
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| Genre: | Allegorie |
| Herkunftsort: | Westeuropa, Frankreich, Europa |
| Kategorie des Auktionshauses: | Skulpturen |
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