CLAUDE VIGNON (TOURS 1593-1670 PARIS)

Lot 33
15.06.2023 15:00UTC +01:00
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ID 974647
Lot 33 | CLAUDE VIGNON (TOURS 1593-1670 PARIS)
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€ 80 000 – 120 000
CLAUDE VIGNON (TOURS 1593-1670 PARIS)

Le songe du chevalier

huile sur toile

148,5 x 116,2 cm. (58 1/2 x 45 3/4 in.)





Provenance

Vente anonyme, Artcurial, Deauville, (Mes Fattori & de Reviers), 23 mars 2008, lot 25 (selon La gazette de l'hôtel Drouot, 2008, op. cit. infra).

Vente anonyme, Christie's, New York, 28 janvier 2009, lot 45.



Literature

Anonyme, La gazette de l'hôtel Drouot, 7 mars 2008, p. 212, reproduit en couleurs p. 212.

Anonyme, 'Vignon peintre tourangeau', La gazette de l'hôtel Drouot, 4 avril 2008, 13, p. 167, reproduit en couleurs p. 167.



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Post lot text

CLAUDE VIGNON, A KNIGHT'S DREAM, OIL ON CANVAS

The present painting shows the subtle union of the Caravaggesque and the Venetian approach to painting that went into creating the poetry of Claude Vignon’s (1593-1670) oeuvre. The artist belonged to the late Mannerist movement, whose refined lyricism delighted European courts in the second half of the 17th century. For Vignon, painting was the art of storytelling: the agility of his brush brought stories and myths to life and offered up distant lands his many patrons.

However, the subject of the Knight's Dream remains shrouded in mystery. Although we can find parallels with his Dream of Daphnis, painted around 1645 (private collection; see P. Pacht Bassani, Claude Vignon 1593-1670, Paris, 1992, p.321, n°229), this is not the story Vignon is telling. The sleeping man is not a goatherd but a richly dressed nobleman, the women who appear in his dream are not nymphs but nuns or saints carrying crucifixes, and the women with wafting drapery in the background are far from the beautiful shepherdess Chloe.

It is more likely that this composition represents the soldier Scipio, who dreamt of virtue and vice, a passage recounted in the Punica of Silius Italicus (25-101). Vignon may have been inspired in this respect by the work of Raphael (1483-1520), who painted the Vision of a Knight, now in the National Gallery in London (inv. no. NG213), around 1504. According to Paola Pacht Bassani, author of the artist's catalogue raisonné, the present painting dates from 1640-1650 (see P. Pacht Bassani, 1993, op. cit. supra); the nebulous foliage of the trees, the shimmering surface and the rich colours can be found in other paintings of this period, such as the Banquet Scene (private collection; ibid., p. 317, n°224), the Dream of Daphnis, and the Banquet of Antony and Cleopatra (The John and Mabel Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, Florida, inv. no. 653).
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