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PAULINE KNIP, NEE RIFER DE COURCELLES (PARIS 1781-1851)

Lot 1
22.11.2022 16:00UTC +01:00
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Event locationFrance, Paris
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ID 859302
Lot 1 | PAULINE KNIP, NEE RIFER DE COURCELLES (PARIS 1781-1851)
Estimate value
€ 40 000 – 60 000
PAULINE KNIP, NEE RIFER DE COURCELLES (PARIS 1781-1851)

Oiseau de paradis (Uranornis rubra) sur une branche

signé et daté 'Pauline/ De Courcelles/ fem. [?] Knip./ 1811' (en bas au centre)

aquarelle et gouache sur vélin

60 x 45 cm (23 5/8 x 17 3/4 in.)





Provenance

Joseph Fouché (1759-1820), duc d’Otrante, comte Fouché, ministre sous Napoléon, Paris, possiblement acheté au Salon de 1814 ; puis par descendance.

Capitaine F. J. C. Holdsworth, Widdicombe House, South Devon ; Christie’s, Londres, 9 novembre 1951, partie du lot 1 (ensemble de 5 oiseaux dont 'Caradis rouge').

Wilton Gallery, Londres.

Vente anonyme ; Sotheby’s, Londres, 26 juin 1957, lot 7 (‘The Magnificent Manoura or Crimson Bird of Paradise’).

Collection particulière, Hollande.



Literature

R. Laruelle, ‘Un peintre d'oiseaux : Mme Pauline de Courcelles (Mme Knip)’, Revue catholique des revues, IV, 5 mai 1897, p. 219.

R. Ronsil, ‘Mme Knip, née Pauline de Courcelles et son œuvre ornithologique’, Journal of the Society for the Bibliography of Natural History, III, n° 4, janvier 1957, pp. 219-220, pl. 3.

E. Bénézit, Dictionnaire des peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs et graveurs, Paris, 1999, VII, p. 879 (‘Le magnifique Manoura de Crimson’).



Exhibited

Possiblement Musée Royal de France, Salon, 1814, n° 549 'Le Manoura magnificat ou porte-lyre'.



Post lot text

PAULINE KNIP, BORN DE COURCELLES (PARIS 1781-1851), BIRD-OF-PARADISE ON A BRANCH, WATERCOLOUR AND BODYCOLOR ON VELLUM, SIGNED
Applied technique:Painted, Watercolor
Place of origin:Western Europe, France, Europe
Auction house category:Drawings
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