JEAN-FRÉDÉRIC SCHALL (STRABSOURG 1752-1825 PARIS) - photo 1
JEAN-FRÉDÉRIC SCHALL (STRABSOURG 1752-1825 PARIS) - photo 2
JEAN-FRÉDÉRIC SCHALL (STRABSOURG 1752-1825 PARIS) - photo 3
JEAN-FRÉDÉRIC SCHALL (STRABSOURG 1752-1825 PARIS) - photo 4
JEAN-FRÉDÉRIC SCHALL (STRABSOURG 1752-1825 PARIS) - photo 5
JEAN-FRÉDÉRIC SCHALL (STRABSOURG 1752-1825 PARIS) - photo 6
JEAN-FRÉDÉRIC SCHALL (STRABSOURG 1752-1825 PARIS) - photo 7

JEAN-FRÉDÉRIC SCHALL (STRABSOURG 1752-1825 PARIS)

Lot 39
11.06.2025 00:00UTC +01:00
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Lot 39 | JEAN-FRÉDÉRIC SCHALL (STRABSOURG 1752-1825 PARIS)
Estimate value
€ 30 000 – 50 000
JEAN-FRÉDÉRIC SCHALL (STRABSOURG 1752-1825 PARIS)
Louis XIV fait sa première déclaration d'Amour à Mademoiselle de La Vallière ; Mademoiselle de La Vallière et Louis XIV sous une tente de feuillage, au bois de Vincennes
huile sur toile, une paire
35,5 x 49,3 cm (14 x 196/16 in.) (chaque)




Provenance

M. Brasset, éditeur, Paris ; sa vente, Paris, 9 mai 1874, lots 31 et 32 (selon A. Girodie, 1927 et les catalogues de vente de 1995, 1997 et 2002, voir infra).
Chez Bernard Houthakker (1884-1963), Amsterdam, vers 1938 (selon une étiquette imprimée au revers de chaque châssis).
Madame Cordault Anderson (selon le catalogue de vente de 1997, voir infra).
Vente anonyme, Christie's, Monaco, 30 juin 1995, lot 62.
Vente anonyme, Christie's, Londres, 18 avril 1997, lot 142.
Vente anonyme, Christie's, Londres, 10 juillet 2002, lot 85 (avec un troisième tableau, Mademoiselle de la Vallière au couvent de Chaillot).
Collection particulière, Allemagne.



Literature

A. Girodie, Un peintre de fêtes galantes. Jean-Frédéric Schall (Strasbourg 1752 - Paris 1825), Strasbourg, 1927, p. 35, p. 69 et probablement p. 63, sous la note 178.



Engraved

Gravés par Louis-Charles Ruotte (1754-1806) d'après Jean-Frédéric Schall, Louis XIV fait sa première déclaration d'Amour à M.lle de La Vallière et Mlle de La Vallière et Louis XIV sous une tente de feuillage, au bois de Vincennes.



Further details

JEAN-FRÉDÉRIC SCHALL (1752-1825), LOUIS XIV MAKES HIS FIRST DECLARATION OF LOVE TO MADEMOISELLE DE LA VALLIÈRE; MADEMOISELLE DE LA VALLIÈRE AND LOUIS XIV BENEATH A LEAFY CANOPY IN THE BOIS DE VINCENNES, OIL ON CANVAS, A PAIR

These two charming paintings belong to a set of six designed to be engraved to illustrate the novel L'Histoire de Mademoiselle de la Vallièreby by Caroline-Stéphanie-Félicité de Genlis (1746-1830). Published by Prud'hon fils in 1804, the adventures of Louise de La Vallière (1644-1710), remembered in history as one of the mistresses of King Louis XIV (1638-1715) in the 1660s - and as having returned to a convent after being abandoned by the Sun King - provided the perfect subject for the moralising taste of the First Empire.

In fact, it was to cope with this new moralistic era that the painter Jean-Frédéric Schall (1752-1825), who was highly regarded under the Ancien Régime for his gallant subjects and his dancers, had to adapt his style by turning to subjects inspired by national history, drawing among other things on the historical anecdotes of the French royal dynasties. And it worked! The Favre-Petitpierre et Cie factory, which operated in Nantes between 1802 and 1818, even used the motifs engraved by Louis-Charles Ruotte (1754-1806) after Schall to produce a Nantes canvas illustrating the story of the unhappy mistress (Fig. 1, Art Institute of Chicago, inv. 1952.650).

It should be noted that when these paintings last appeared on the market in 2002 (see above), they were presented in the same lot with a third work from the painted ensemble, Mademoiselle de la Vallière au couvent de Chaillot. Finally, a fourth painting, Mademoiselle de la Vallière et le Marquis de Bragelonne, was sold at Sotheby's Billingshurst on 17 May 1997 (lot 1074).
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