ID 1436643
Lot 104 | ANTOINE CARON (BEAUVAIS 1521-1599 PARIS)
Estimate value
$ 300 000 – 500 000
Le Triomphe de l'Hiver (The Triumph of Winter)
oil on canvas
41 x 71 ¼ in. (104.2 x 181 cm.)
Provenance
Alexandre Olivier (1568-1607), Paris, and by descent to his widow,
Marguerite Olivier, neé de Héry, and by whom sold in 1612 to her son,
Aubin Olivier (d. 1620), Paris, and by descent to his sons,
Alexandre Olivier (b. 1614) and Aubin Olivier (b. 1615).
Simon de Vaulx, by 1651.
René Holtzer, by 1938.
Private collection, Paris.
Gustave Lebel (1870-1945), Paris, by 1939, and by descent to his son-in-law,
Jean Ehrmann (1902-1984), Paris.
Anonymous sale, Mess. Couturier, Nicolay, Daussy & Ricqles, Drouot Richelieu, Paris, 15 December 1992, lot 49.
with Richard L. Feigen & Co., New York, by 1993.
Literature
G. Lebel, 'Nouvelles précisions sur Antoine Caron', L'amour de l'Art, XIX, Paris, 1938, pp. 278 and 280, fig. 15.
G. Lebel, 'Séance du 8 Juin', Bulletin de la Société des Antiquaires de France, 1938, p. 160, 274, and 279.
G. Lebel, 'Notes sur Antoine Caron et son Oeuvre', Bulletin de la Société d'histoire de l'Art Français, 1940, p. 25-28 and 31, illustrated.
R. Rosenblum, 'The Paintings of Antoine Caron', Marsyas, VI, 1950-1953, pp. 6-7, pl. III, fig. 1.
A. Blunt, Art and Architecture in France 1500-1700, London and Baltimore, 1953, p. 108, note 62.
J. Ehrmann, Antoine Caron. Peintre à la Cour de Valois, Paris, 1955, pp. 8, 13, 22 and 44, pl. II.
G. Wildenstein, 'Inventaire des tableaux de Simon de Vaulx (1651)', Gazette des Beaux-Arts, XLIX, February 1957, p. 112, under no. 49.
R. Huyghe ed., Larousse Encylopedia of Renaissance and Baroque Art, New York, 1964, p. 169, fig. 374.
F. Würtenberger, Der Manierismus, Vienna and Munich, 1962, pp. 227 and 235, illustrated; English edition, New York, 1963, pp. 227 and 235, illustrated.
A. Châtelet and J. Thuillier, French Painting. From Fouquet to Poussin, I, Geneva, 1963, p. 142, illustrated; 1992 edition, p. 122, illustrated.
A. P. de Mirimonde, 'Les Allégories de la Musique II. Le Retour de Mercure et les allégories des beaux-arts', Gazette des Beaux-Arts, June 1969, p. 341, fig. 1 (detail).
M. Brion, Antoine Caron. Les Muses, December 1970, p. 1253, illustrated.
J. Ehrmann, 'Artistes franco-flamands de l'École de Fontainebleau et actes notariaux sur la famille d'Antoine Caron', Bulletin de la Société de l'Histoire de l'Art Français, 1972, pp. 74 and 76-77.
J. Ehrmann, L'École de Fontainebleau, 1972, p. 35, no. 35, illustrated, pl. 35.
J. Ehrmann, Antoine Caron: Peintre des Fêtes et des Masques, Paris, 1986, p. 107.
F. A. Yates, The French Academy of the Sixteenth Century, New York, 1986, p. 212.
Advertisement, La Gazette Drouot, 4 December 1992, p. 30, illustrated.
Drouot Annuaire 1993, Paris, 1993, pp. 10-11, illustrated.
E. Leutrat, 'De Fontainebleau à Paris: Les Saisons d'Antoine Caron. Images du Temps, du Roi et des Arts pour un médailleur', Peindre en France à la Renaissance II . Fontainebleau et son rayonnement, Geneva, 2012, pp. 63-73, fig. 34.
F. Hueber, Antoine Caron, peintre de ville, pientre de cour, 1521-1599, Tours and Rennes, 2018, pp. 106-113 and 268, no. 12.1.
M. Gianeselli ed., Antoine Caron, 1521-1599. Le théâtre de l'histoire, exhibition catalogue, Paris, 2023, pp. 29, 100, 210 and 213.
Exhibited
Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum, Het Franse Landschap van Poussin tot Cézanne, 18 March-4 June 1951, no. 9.
Paris, Orangerie des Tuileries, Le Cabinet de L'Amateur, February-April 1956, no. 23.
Stockholm, Nationalmuseum, Fem Sekler Fransk Konst, 15 August-9 September 1958, no. 28.
Bordeaux, Musée de Bordeaux, La découverte de la lumière des Primitifs aux Impressionnistes, 20 May-31 July 1959, no. 13.
Paris, Institute Pédagogique National, La vie théâtrale au temps de la Renaissance, March-May 1963, no. 118.
Fort Worth, Fort Worth Art Center, and Austin, University of Texas Art Museum, The School of Fontainebleau, 15 September-5 December 1965.
Paris, Grand Palais, L'École de Fontainebleau, Paris, 17 October 1972-15 January 1973, no. 35.
Artist: | Giovanni Francesco Barbieri (Guercino, 1591 - 1666) |
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Applied technique: | Oil on canvas |
Genre: | Allegory, Mythological painting |
Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe |
Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings |
Artist: | Giovanni Francesco Barbieri (Guercino, 1591 - 1666) |
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Applied technique: | Oil on canvas |
Genre: | Allegory, Mythological painting |
Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe |
Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings |
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