NICOLAS DE LARGILLIERRE (PARIS 1656-1746)

Lot 195
18.05.2022 14:30UTC +01:00
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Lot 195 | NICOLAS DE LARGILLIERRE (PARIS 1656-1746)
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€ 60 000 – 80 000
NICOLAS DE LARGILLIERRE (PARIS 1656-1746)Saint Barthélemyhuile sur toile92,5 x 74 cm (36 1⁄2 x 29 in.) Provenance Probablement l'un des apôtres peints par Nicolas de Largillierre (1656-1746) pour sa maison de la rue Geoffroy-l'Angevin ; son inventaire après-décès du 26 mars 1745 (G. de Lastic, 'Nicolas de Largillierre, documents notariés inédits', Gazette de Beaux-Arts, juillet 1981, p. 25, n°71 (comme 'St Barthelemy').Probablement vente Cabinet de M. Largillière (sic), Peintre du Roi, Recteur, Directeur & Chancelier de l'Académie Royale de Peinture & de Sculpture, Paris, rue Saint Honoré, au Roi des Indes, 14 janvier 1765, lot 12 (comme 'Cinq Tableaux du même représentant des Apôtres, de 2 pieds 9 pouces de haut sur 2 pieds 3 pouces de large, tant avec bordure, que sans bordure').Collection Willy Kock, Amsterdam, Pays-Bas, 1968 (comme 'Greuze').Vente Arcole, hôtel Drouot, Paris, 17 décembre 1990, lot 45 (comme 'attribué à Ubaldo Gandolfi').Collection Pierro Corsini, Monte-Carlo, Monaco, 1996.Collection prince de la Tour d'Auvergne, France (selon le catalogue de vente de 2008, op. cit. infra).Collection particulière, Grande-Bretagne, 2003-2004.Vente Néret-Minet & Tessier, Paris, 16 avril 2008, lot 8 (comme 'Nicolas de Largillierre', reproduit en couleurs en couverture).Collection particulière, France. Literature A.-J. Dézallier d'Argenville, Abrégé de la vie des plus fameux peintres, Paris, 1762, IV, p. 301 (comme 'huit têtes d'apôtres'). G. Pascal, Largillierre, coll. 'L'art français', Paris, 1928, p. 48 et p. 78, n°213 (comme 'douze apôtres'). T. W. Gaehtgens, J. Lugand, Joseph-Marie Vien. Peintre du Roi (1716-1809), Paris, 1988, p. 143, sous le n°63.S. Perris-Delmas, 'À la Une', La Gazette de l'Hôtel Drouot, 11 avril 2008, 14, p. 5.Anonyme, 'Un Largillierre enlevé !', La Gazette de l'Hôtel Drouot, 25 avril 2008, 16, p. 43. Exhibited Paris, musée Jacquemart-André, Nicolas de Largillierre, Peintre du Grand Siècle, 14 octobre 2003-30 janvier 2004, n°15. Special notice This item will be transferred to an offsite warehouse after the sale. Please refer to department for information about storage charges and collectiondetails. Post lot text NICOLAS DE LARGILLIERRE, SAINT BARTHOLOMEW, OIL ON CANVASNicolas de Largillierre (1656-1746), along with his contemporary Hyacinthe Rigaud (1659-1743), epitomises French portraiture in the grand siècle. Whilst the latter dedicated himself to a royal clientele, our painter catered to the highly lucrative demands of the high bourgeoisie, financiers and politicians. Whilst the religious nature of our painting makes it stand out within the painter’s oeuvre, this half-length representation of the apostle Bartholomew -whose attributes, the knife and St Matthew’s gospel, evoke both his role as a preacher and his martyrdom- can be nonetheless linked to the painter’s genre of predilection. This naturalistic depiction of a man bathed in divine light was only fully attributed to the painter by Dominique Brême in 2003, on the occasion of the exhibition held at the musée Jacquemart-André in Paris, as he attached our painting to a series of apostles which decorated the artist’s home on rue Geoffroy-l’Angevin. Following this argument, our saint would have been painted -like the four other holy figures mentioned in the inventory of Largillierre’s possessions made up after his death (G. de Lastic, op. cit., p. 25)- for the artist’s personal enjoyment, use and perhaps devotion. Within the body of fully autograph works with which the artist lived, paintings with a religious theme dominate. They adorned the walls of his richly decorated home, whose furniture and decorative objects, which included pedestal and console tables, pier glass, tapestries and musical instruments, was described by Dézallier d’Argenville (1680-1765). This painting, dated to 1710-1715, illustrates the artist’s eclectic mixture of influences. Trained in Antwerp by Rubens’ (1577-1640) school of colourists, he discovers through his travels the paintings of Antoon van Dyck (1599-1641) as well as the pictures of the Bolognese school centred around Annibal Carrache (1560-1609). The difficulty that art historians have had in dating and attributing our picture is a testimony to its originality within the context of the classical aesthetic of the French school in the first half of the 18th century. The three variants of this composition testify to the picture’s contemporary popularity. One is by Joseph-Marie Vien (1716-1809), and is held in the musée Francisque Mandet in Riom. Another version, exhibited at the musée d’Art et d’Histoire of Geneva, is attributed to Gaetano Gandolfi (1734-1802), whilst the third is in the collections of the musée des beaux-arts of Arras. Previously believed to be by Jean Jouvenet (1644-1717), this last variant is probably autograph.
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