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CHARLES DE WAILLY (PARIS 1730-1798)

Lot 56
22.03.2023 15:00UTC +01:00
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ID 922526
Lot 56 | CHARLES DE WAILLY (PARIS 1730-1798)
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€ 10 000 – 15 000
CHARLES DE WAILLY (PARIS 1730-1798)

Caprice architectural avec une colonne salomonique, un plafond à caissons et la statue d’un général

Signé et daté ‘Dewailly. f. A° 1756’ (en bas à droite)

graphite, pierre noire, plume et encre noire, lavis brun et gris, rehaussé de blanc

48,6 x 36,6 cm (19 1/8 x 14 3/8 in.)





Provenance

Probablement vente Charles De Wailly, Paris, 24 novembre 1788, lots 103 ou 104 (‘Vue des colonnes du baldaquin de Saint-Pierre - le même avec des changements’), acquis par la comtesse de Fourcroy (ancienne épouse De Wailly) ; sa vente, Paris, 2 avril 1839, lot 39 (‘Les colonnes du baldaquin dans l’église de Saint-Pierre à Rome - Deux dessins lavés au bistre’).

Vente, Christie’s, Londres, 2 juillet 1991, lot 160 (‘Un caprice architectural avec la statue d'un commandant sous un baldaquin’).

Vente, Christie’s, Londres, 1 juillet 1997, lot 143.

Vente, Christie’s, Londres, 9 décembre 2009, lot 399.

Vente Sotheby’s, New York, 26 janvier 2011, lot 647.



Literature

M. Roland-Michel, Le Dessin au XVIIIème siècle, Paris, 1987, p. 143, fig. 156.

M. Mosser et D. Rabreau, Charles de Wailly, peintre architecte dans l’Europe des Lumières, cat. exp., Paris, p. 34, n° 48.

C. Leribault, L’Antiquité rêvée, innovation et résistance au XVIII e siècle, cat. exp., Paris, musée du Louvre, 2010, p. 253, sous le n° 69.



Exhibited

Paris, Hôtel de Sully, Saint-Pétersbourg, Ermitage, Charles de Wailly, peintre architecte dans l’Europe des Lumières, 1979, n° 48.

Paris, Galerie Cailleux, Rome 1760-1770, Fragonard, Hubert Robert et leurs amis, 1983, n° 13.



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This lot is offered without reserve.



Post lot text

CHARLES DE WAILLY, ARCHITECTURAL CAPRICCIO WITH A TORSO COLUMN, BLACK CHALK, PEN AND BLACK INK, BROWN AND GREY WASH, HEIGHTENED WITH WHITE, SIGNED AND DATED

This da sotto in sù view of a baldachin shows a vertiginous ascending perspective; the spirals and the distorted aspect of the columns lend the composition great dynamism. As the autograph inscription indicates, the drawing was made during De Wailly’s stay in Italy between 1754 and 1757. In Rome, the young architect was fascinated by Saint Peter’s Basilica and Gianlorenzo Bernini’s baldachin in it, as evident from other drawings: an Interior of Saint Peter’s (Beaux-Arts de Paris, inv. O.928), two Studies of the pulpit of Saint Peter’s from 1754 and 1755 (University Library, Uppsala; State Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg; see Rome 1760-1770. Fragonard, Hubert Robert et leurs amis, exhib. cat., Paris, Galerie Cailleux, 1983, under no. 13), and The Luminous Cross at Saint Peter’s in Rome (Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen, inv. 975-4-1788). At the Salon of 1789, De Wailly exhibited three of his drawings from the Boutin collection, including (under no. 53) the Baldachin of Saint Peter’s (J.-F. Heim and C. Beraud, Les Salons de peinture de la Révolution française 1789-1799, Paris, 1989, p. 390).
These drawings date from a period of great artistic effervescence in Rome, where many artists came to perfect their training, and when De Wailly met Hubert Robert and Augustin Pajou (M. Mosser and D. Rabreau, Charles de Wailly, peintre architecte dans l'Europe des Lumières, exhib. cat., Paris, Hôtel de Sully, 1979, pp. 19-21).
Applied technique:Chalk, Painted
Medium:Acrylic glass, Plastic, Stone
Place of origin:Western Europe, France, Europe
Auction house category:All other types of objects, Drawings
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