ID 1248190
Lot 202 | ALEXANDRE-FRANÇOIS DESPORTES (CHAMPIGNEULE 1661-1743 PARIS)
Estimate value
£ 15 000 – 20 000
Two cocks fighting in a farmyard, a pheasant and two hens nearby
signed and dated 'Desportes / 1713' (lower left)
oil on canvas
38 ½ x 51 ½ in. (97.9 x 130.8 cm.)
Provenance
(Possibly) William Morehead, Herbertshire; (†) Mr C.B. Tait, Edinburgh, 23 January 1853 (=1st day), lot 53.
Mrs V.A.R. Dance, Moreton House, Moreton Morrell, Warwickshire; (her sale), Heathcote Ball & Co. and Locke & England, Leicester, 8 December 1977, lot 377.
Literature
H. Robels, Frans Snyders: Stilleben- und Tiermaler 1579-1657, Munich, 1989, p. 313, no. 205b.
P. Jacky, François Desportes (1661-1743), PhD dissertation, Paris, 1999, IV, pp. 639-40.
G. de Lastic and P. Jacky, Desportes Catalogue Raisonné, Saint-Rémy-en-l'Eau, 2010, II, p. 139, no. P542.
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