LOUIS-NICOLAS VAN BLARENBERGHE (LILLE 1716-1794)

Lot 56
20.03.2024 15:00UTC +01:00
Classic
Vendu
€ 18 900
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Lieu de l'événementFrance, Paris
Archive
La vente aux enchères est terminée. Vous ne pouvez plus enchérir.
Archive
ID 1173009
Lot 56 | LOUIS-NICOLAS VAN BLARENBERGHE (LILLE 1716-1794)
Valeur estimée
€ 20 000 – 30 000
LOUIS-NICOLAS VAN BLARENBERGHE (LILLE 1716-1794)

Le siège d'une ville sous Louis XIV

signé ‘Van Blarenberghe fecit’ (en bas à droite) et avec inscription ‘Namur’ (verso du panneau)

gouache sur vélin, contrecollé sur panneau

28,8 x 39,3 cm (11 3⁄8 x 15 ½ in.)





Provenance

Duchesse de Maillé.

Avec Maurice Segoura, Paris.



Further details

LOUIS-NICOLAS VAN BLARENBERGHE, THE SIEGE OF A CITY UNDER LOUIS XIV, BODYCOLOUR ON VELLUM, LAID DOWN ON PANEL

While the sites of the battle scenes in five gouaches on vellum by Louis-Nicolas van Blarenberghe, commissioned by Louis XVI for his private apartments at Versailles and depicting his the battles fought by his grandfather Louix XIV in Flanders, have all been identified (Ypres, Mons, Fontenoy, Riemst and Tournai), the site of the present view remains unknown. According to the inscriptions on the back of the frame, it would represent the siege of Namur, but the topography of the Walloon city is quite different (compare the two gouaches in Versailles, inv. MV 2240 and inv. MV 19354; see X. Salmon, Louis-Nicolas van Blarenberghe à Versailles. Les Gouaches commandées par Louis XVI, Paris, 2005, nos. 14, 15, ill.). The town’s castle on a rocky promontory does not appear in the present work.
Some of the animated scenes in the foreground are more often used by Blarenberghe in his representations of sieges, in particular the detail of the camp scene on the left where soldiers at rest stand in front of two tents, which can be found on a gouache dated 1760 (private collection; see M. Maillet-Chassagne and I. de Château-Thierry, Catalogue raisonné des œuvres des Van Blarenberghe,1680-1826, Lille, 2004, no. 2-120-2, ill.). The present work’s medium and style are typical for the artist. On a vellum stretched over panel, he uses a brush or a broad brush to depict the skies with bodycolour, while the figures are painted with greater precision (Salmon, op. cit., pp. 5-6, 11).
Adresse de l'enchère CHRISTIE'S
9 Avenue Matignon
75008 Paris
France
Aperçu
20.03.2024 – 20.03.2024
Téléphone +33 (0)1 40 76 85 85
Fax +33 (0)1 40 76 85 86
E-mail
Conditions d'utilisationConditions d'utilisation
transport Service postal
Service de messagerie
ramassage par vous-même
Modes de paiement Virement bancaire
Heures d'ouvertureHeures d'ouverture
Lu 09:00 – 00:00    00:00 – 18:00
Ma 09:00 – 00:00    00:00 – 18:00
Me 09:00 – 00:00    00:00 – 18:00
Je 09:00 – 00:00    00:00 – 18:00
Ve 09:00 – 00:00    00:00 – 18:00
Sa fermé
Di fermé

Plus du Créateur

LOUIS-NICOLAS VAN BLARENBERGHE (LILLE 1716-1794)
LOUIS-NICOLAS VAN BLARENBERGHE (LILLE 1716-1794)
£40 000

Termes connexes