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JEAN-FRANCOIS DE TROY (PARIS 1679-1752 ROME)

Lot 195
17.04.2024 14:00UTC -05:00
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Starting price
$ 150 000
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationUSA, New York
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ID 1176943
Lot 195 | JEAN-FRANCOIS DE TROY (PARIS 1679-1752 ROME)
Estimate value
$ 150 000 – 200 000
JEAN-FRANCOIS DE TROY (PARIS 1679-1752 ROME)

Allegory of painting

signed and dated 'J.F. Troy 1733' (center left on edge of the table)

oil on canvas, oval

35 1⁄8 x 43 ½ in. (89.2 x 110.5 cm.)





Provenance

Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, Monaco, 22 June 1985, lot 161.

Roberto Polo (b. 1951), Paris; [Property from a Collection formed by Robert Polo sold at the Direction of the Internal Revenue Service]; Sotheby's, New York, 11 January 1990, lot 101.

with Heim Gallery, London, by 1990.

with Bruno Meissner, Zurich, by 1992.

Anonymous sale; Hotel Drouot, Paris, 10 April 1996, lot 11.

Private collection, London, by 2002.

Anonymous sale; Christie's, New York, 23 January 2004, lot 66, where acquired by the present owner.



Literature

K. Scott, The Rococo Interior, London, 1995, pp. 221-222, illustrated (as whereabouts unknown).

C. Leribault, Jean-François De Troy 1679-1752, Paris 2002, p. 330, no. 213 (illustrated, p. 10, frontispiece and back cover).

The present work will be included in the forthcoming catalogue raisonné of De Troy's works by J.L. Bordeau.
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