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JEAN DECOURT (PARIS ? VERS 1525-1584 PARIS)

Lot 67
16.11.2023 14:00UTC +01:00
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€ 22 680
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationFrance, Paris
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ID 1058748
Lot 67 | JEAN DECOURT (PARIS ? VERS 1525-1584 PARIS)
Estimate value
€ 20 000 – 30 000
JEAN DECOURT (PARIS ? VERS 1525-1584 PARIS)

Catherine de Médicis entourée de ses fils Charles IX, Henry III et de ses belles-filles Elisabeth d'Autriche et Louise de Vaudémont

gouache rehaussé d’or sur vélin

14 x 9,1 cm. (5 ½ x 3 5⁄8 in.)





Provenance

Baron Alphonse de Rothschild (1827-1905), Paris; son inventaire après décès, 16 octobre 1905, probablement p. 99 (‘Catherine de Médicis XVIe siècle – anonyme – estimé six mille francs’).

Baron Édouard de Rothschild (1868-1949), Paris.

Spolié sous la direction du Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg sous l’Occupation de la France, après mai

1940, et transféré au Jeu de Paume (ERR no R 80 - comme ‘Kreis des François Clouet’).

Récupéré par l’unité Monuments Fine Arts and Archives aux mines de sel d’Altaussee, Autriche, et transféré au Munich Central Collecting Point le 25 juin 1945 (MCCP no 761⁄16).

Renvoyé en France le 19 septembre 1946 pour être enfin restitué à la famille Rothschild le 22 octobre 1947.

Resté depuis par descendance dans la famille.



Further details

JEAN DECOURT, CATHEDRINE DE’ MEDICI SURROUNDED BY HER FAMILY, BODYCOLOUR, HEIGHTENED WITH GOLD, ON VELLUM
Artist:François Clouet (1515 - 1572)
Applied technique:Gouache
Art style:Old Masters
Place of origin:Western Europe, France, Europe
Auction house category:All other types of objects, Drawings
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