CHARLES GLEYRE (CHEVILLY 1808 - PARIS 1874) - photo 1

CHARLES GLEYRE (CHEVILLY 1808 - PARIS 1874)

Lot 87
22.03.2023 15:00UTC +01:00
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€ 13 860
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationFrance, Paris
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ID 922501
Lot 87 | CHARLES GLEYRE (CHEVILLY 1808 - PARIS 1874)
Estimate value
€ 4 000 – 6 000
CHARLES GLEYRE (CHEVILLY 1808 - PARIS 1874)

Minerve

signé ‘C. Gleyre’ (en bas à gauche au graphite)

sanguine, pierre noire et craie blanche sur papier chamois brun

55,5 x 43,5 cm (21 5/8 x 17 1/8 in.)





Provenance

Légué en 1874 par Charles Gleyre à Alexandre Denuelle (1818-1879), puis par descendance.



Post lot text

CHARLES GLEYRE, MINERVA, RED, BLACK AND WHITE CHALK ON LIGHT BROWN PAPER, SIGNED

Minerva, goddess of arts and crafts, is haloed by luminous rays and plays the flute as patroness of the arts. This drawing is related to Minerva and the Three Graces (fig. 1), a canvas commissioned from Gleyre in 1866 by the businessman Vincent Dubochet (1793-1877) for his château in Crêtes in the canton of Vaud, Switzerland (Lausanne, Cantonal Museum of Fine Arts, inv. 1388; see W. Hauptman, Charles Gleyre 1806-1874. Catalogue raisonné, Zürich, Princeton and Basle, 1996, II, no. 872, pp. 468-476). The present drawing shows the culmination of the artist’s research and his concern for graphic accuracy in his preparatory work. Alexandre Denuelle, in charge of the interior decorations of the Château de Crêtes and a close friend of Gleyre, probably received this drawing at the artist's death, and it remained in the Denuelle family until the beginning of the 21st century.

Fig. 1. Charles Gleyre, Minerva and the Three Graces, Lausanne, Cantonal Museum of Fine Arts.
Applied technique:Chalk, Sanguine
Medium:Stone
Place of origin:Western Europe, France, Europe
Auction house category:All other types of objects, Drawings
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