Jean (1597) Lemaire Paintings & Artwork for Sale | Jean (1597) Lemaire Art Value Price Guide

Jul. 03, 2024
Nicholas Poussin (1594 - 1665) and Jean Lemaire (1598 - 1659), Theseus Rediscovering His Father's Sword
Est: £20,000 - £40,000
Nicholas Poussin (1594 - 1665) and Jean Lemaire (1598 - 1659) Theseus Rediscovering His Father's Sword Oil on canvas The subject of this ambitious composition is well known. Taken from the Life of Theseus by Plutarch (Lives of Illustrious Men), it centres upon the young Theseus, son of Aegeus, king of Athens, and of Aethra, who was brought up under a false identity by his grandfather Pittheus in the city of Troezen. Before the birth of his son, Aegeus had hidden a sword and gold sandals under a rock that only Theseus would be able to lift; by doing so he would learn his true identity. This work depicts the very moment when, on his mother Aethra’s advice, the young Athenian hero, bent double by the weight, lifts the heavy rock under which are hidden the symbols that will mean he is recognised by the people of Athens as their sovereign. There are several versions of this work, all of comparable size and incorporating variations. In four of them, including the present example, it is thought that the architecture was painted by Jean Lemaire. The principal version, in the Musée Condé in Chantilly (inv. 300) was, without doubt, the first to be painted: the figures (and in our view the landscape) are by Nicolas Poussin while the architecture is by Jean Lemaire. This collaboration between the two artists was confirmed by Pierre-Jean Mariette, who described the Chantilly painting (at that time about to join the collection of the Marquis du Tillot) as follows: ‘This architecture, painted with great care, is not the work of Poussin, but of Le Maire, a French painter, who often lent his hand to Poussin for the architecture in his paintings and who truly excelled at it. Only the figures were painted by Poussin’ (Abecedario de P. J. Mariette et autres notes inédites de cet amateur sur les arts et les artistes: Ouvrage publié ... par MM. Ph. de Chennevières et A. de Montaiglon, Archives de l’Art français 1857-1858, vol. 4, pp. 204-205). We know from other sources as well as from Mariette that Nicolas Poussin frequently collaborated with Jean Lemaire – whom he considered a friend and held in high regard – at least during the 1630s and early 1640s. Poussin’s return to Rome after his time in Paris (1640–1642) put an end to their collaboration, but not to their friendship. Rosenberg describes this as ‘Nicolas Poussin et Jean Lemaire (?)’, however the Lemaire scholar Maurizio Fagiolo dell’Arco, in his monograph on Lemaire, saw it as ‘a re-working of the painting executed in collaboration with Poussin’ (op. cit. p. 203) with a date in the artist’s Parisian period, around 1640-1650. The figures of Theseus, Aethra and the young girl also seem to be of a quality close to that of Nicolas Poussin, but their condition, which is not perfect – they have probably been subjected to slightly aggressive restoration in the past – makes it impossible to determine categorically whether Poussin had a hand in it or not. Provenance: Christie’s, London, 26 June 1970, lot 43; Sotheby’s, New York, 17 January 1985, lot 20; Sotheby’s, Monaco, 18-19 June 1992, lot 135; Sotheby’s, Monaco, 5 December 1992, lot 189; Christie’s, New York, 15 April 2008, Lot 39, $300,000-$400,000; Sotheby’s, Paris, 10 November 2022, Lot 32. Literature: P. Rosenberg, in cat. exh. Nicolas Poussin - La collection du musée Condé à Chantilly, Chantilly, Musée Condé 1994, pp. 53-54, under no. 4, repr. fig. 4d (as Nicolas Poussin et Jean Lemaire (?)); F. dell’Arco, Jean Lemaire, pittore « antiquario, Rome 1996, p. 203, no. 46, repr. Dimensions: 40 in. (H) x 49 in. (W)
Sloane Street Auctions
Nov. 10, 2022
Theseus Rediscovering His Father's Sword | Thésée retrouve l'épée de son père
Est: €50,000 - €70,000
Jean Lemaire and Workshop of Nicolas Poussin Dammartin-en-Goële 1598 - 1659 Gaillon and Les Andelys 1594 - 1665 Rome Theseus Rediscovering His Father's Sword Oil on canvas 99,3 x 125,2 cm ; 39 ⅛ by 49 ¼ in. ____________________________________________ Jean Lemaire et Atelier de Nicolas Poussin Dammartin-en-Goële 1598 - 1659 Gaillon et Les Andelys 1594 - 1665 Rome Thésée retrouve l'épée de son père Huile sur toile 99,3 x 125,2 cm ; 39 ⅛ by 49 ¼ in. Bid on Sotheby's
Sotheby's
Dec. 08, 2021
JEAN LEMAIRE, CALLED POUSSIN-LEMAIRE (DAMMARTIN 1598-1659 GAILLON) The Colo
Est: £50,000 - £80,000
JEAN LEMAIRE, CALLED POUSSIN-LEMAIRE (DAMMARTIN 1598-1659 GAILLON) The Colosseum, with an artist sketching oil on canvas 57 7/8 x 83 ½ in. (144.5 x 212 cm.)
Christie's
Jun. 22, 2021
Jean LEMAIRE dit LEMAIRE-POUSSIN (Dammartin-en-Goële 1598-Gaillon 1659)
Est: €8,000 - €12,000
Jean LEMAIRE dit LEMAIRE-POUSSIN (Dammartin-en-Goële 1598-Gaillon 1659) Le baptême de Clorinde par Tancrède (La Jérusalem délivrée) Toile Manques au cadre Restaurations anciennes The baptism of Clorinda by Tancred (Jerusalem Delivered), canvas, lacks on the frame, old restorations 130 x 92 cm - 51,2 x 36,2 in.
Tajan
Nov. 18, 2014
Jean Lemaire, dit Lemaire-Poussin Dammartin, 1598 - Gaillon, 1659 Personnages dans des ruines antiques Huile sur toile
Est: €12,000 - €15,000
Jean Lemaire, dit Lemaire-Poussin Dammartin, 1598 - Gaillon, 1659 Personnages dans des ruines antiques Huile sur toile Sans cadre 'FIGURES IN ANTIQUE RUINS', OIL ON CANVAS, BY J. LEMAIRE CALLED LEMAIRE-POUSSIN h: 72 w: 88,50 cm Commentaire : Si l'épisode de la mythologie antique peint par l'artiste reste énigmatique, il est aisé de constater les multiples sources d'inspirations utilisées dans cette toile. Nous distinguons deux monuments célèbres de la Rome antique en arrière-plan : le Colisée et la pyramide de Caius Sextus. Plus intéressante et originale est la vasque peinte avec soin dans la partie droite. Nous ne savons où cette dernière se trouvait au moment où fut peint le tableau mais elle se trouvait dans les collections de la villa Albani à la fin du XVIIIe siècle comme l'atteste un dessin de jeunesse de Pierre-François-Léonard Fontaine (1). Cette vasque désormais célèbre sous le nom de vase Torlonia est un vase antique monumental en marbre blanc de 1,50 mètre de haut sculpté au Ier siècle avant-J-C. Lorsqu'il est dessiné par Marteen van Heemskerck dans les années 1530 il fait alors partie des collections du cardinal Paolo-Emilio Cesi dans son palais du Janicule. Ulysse Aldrovandi en fait une description aboutie dans la seconde partie du XVIe siècle et signale la vasque qui fut déplacée pour être mise en valeur et transformée en fontaine, une sculpture de Silène vidant une outre de vin dans la vasque prenant place en partie supérieure (2). Les collections Cesi dispersées vers 1600, le vase réapparaît lorsqu'il est acquis par Alessandro Albani qui l'installe en 1760 dans son nouveau palais. Par héritage le vase se trouvait au XIXe siècle dans les collections des princes Torlonia qui donnèrent leur nom à ce vase. 1. Michèle Heng, " Un fond inédit d'œuvres, archives et collections provenant de l'architecte Pierre-François-Léonard Fontaine (1762-1853) ", in B.S.H.A.F., 2011 (2014), p. 69, fig. 5. 2 - L'artiste Pieter Perret grave cette fontaine en 1581. Un exemplaire de cette gravure est conservé au Art Institute de Chicago.
Artcurial
Jul. 04, 2013
JEAN LEMAIRE
Est: £30,000 - £40,000
THE PROPERTY OF A LADY PARIS 1597 - 1659 AN ARCHITECTURAL CAPRICCIO WITH ANCIENT RUINS, A TRIUMPHAL ARCH AND AN HAUT-RELIEF SCULPTURE, WITH THE STORY OF MERCURY AND ARGUS oil on canvas 76 by 73 cm.; 30 by 28 3/4 in.
Sotheby's
Jun. 27, 2013
JEAN LEMAIRE
Est: €20,000 - €30,000
PARIS 1597 - 1659 MERCURE ET HERS THOMAS BLANCHET ; MERCURY AND HERSE ; BEARS AN INSCRIPTION AND DATE ON THE REVERSE ; OIL ON CANVAS Porte une inscription au verso Arch of Constantine. / N. Poussin. Pxt. Huile sur toile 105,5 x 98 cm ; 41 1/2 by 38 2/3 in
Sotheby's
Dec. 05, 2012
JEAN LEMAIRE
Est: £80,000 - £120,000
THE PROPERTY OF A LADY PARIS 1597 - 1659 AN ARCHITECTURAL CAPRICCIO WITH ANCIENT RUINS, A TRIUMPHAL ARCH AND A HAUT-RELIEF SCULPTURE, WITH THE STORY OF MERCURY AND ARGUS oil on canvas 76 by 73 cm.; 30 by 28 3/4 in.
Sotheby's
Jun. 29, 2012
Attribué à Jean LEMAIRE (1597-1659) Vue d'une ville classique animée de personnages Toile 89 x 66 cm (Restaurations)
Est: €4,000 - €6,000
Attribué à Jean LEMAIRE (1597-1659) Vue d'une ville classique animée de personnages Toile 89 x 66 cm (Restaurations)
Piasa
Dec. 07, 2011
JEAN POUSSIN LEMAIRE, Frankrike 1598-1659
Est: kr60,000 - kr80,000
JEAN POUSSIN LEMAIRE, Frankrike 1598-1659
Stockholms Auktionsverket
Dec. 07, 2011
Attributed to Jean Lemaire (Danmartin 1597-1659 Gaillon)
Est: £12,000 - £18,000
Attributed to Jean Lemaire (Danmartin 1597-1659 Gaillon) An architectural capriccio of Roman ruins, with the Rest on the Flight to Egypt oil on canvas 31 5/8 x 25¼ in. (80.3 x 64.2 cm.)
Christie's
May. 25, 2011
JEAN POUSSIN LEMAIRE Frankrike 1598-1659,
Est: kr150,000 - kr200,000
JEAN POUSSIN LEMAIRE Frankrike 1598-1659, tillskriven Antik stadsvy Olja på duk, 98 x 138 cm. Attributed to. Oil on canvas. EXPERTIS: Cabinet Turquin, Stéphane Pinta, Paris Compare our painting with a similar at Hermitage in Sankt Petersburg (oil on canvas, 97 x 134 cm). LITTERATUR: Maurizio Fagliolo dell´Arco Jean Lemaire pit...
Stockholms Auktionsverket
Apr. 07, 2010
Jean LEMAIRE dit LEMAIRE-POUSSIN (1598 - 1659)
Est: €1,500 - €2,000
Jean LEMAIRE dit LEMAIRE-POUSSIN (1598 - 1659) Perspective imaginaire depuis l'Arc de constantin avec le colisée dans le fond Plume et encre brune, lavis brun. 10 x 12,5 cm on joint sur le même montage une gravure...
Ader
Apr. 15, 2008
Theseus finds his Father's sword
Est: $300,000 - $400,000
Jean Lemaire, called le Gros Lemaire Dammartin 1598-1659 Gaillon, and possibly Nicolas Poussin Normandy 1598-1659 Gaillon Theseus finds his Father's sword oil on canvas 39 x 49 3/8 in. 99.2 x 125.2 cm.
Christie's
Dec. 04, 2007
Jean Lemaire 1589-1659. Efterföljare till.
Est: kr50,000 - kr60,000
Jean Lemaire 1589-1659. Efterföljare till. 17-1800-tal. Palatsinteriör med figurer. Olja på pannå, 86 x 65. Parketterad, smärre retuscher. Follower of. 18/19th century. Oil on panel, 86 x 65 cm.
Auktionskammare Uppsala
Jul. 06, 2006
JEAN LEMAIRE PARIS 1597 - 1659
Est: £20,000 - £30,000
PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION THE REST ON THE FLIGHT TO EGYPT measurements note 101.3 by 133.7 cm.; 39 7/8 by 52 5/8 in. oil on canvas PROVENANCE The Earls of Caledon, London, by 1857 (as Poussin); Caledon sale, London, Christie's, 9 June 1939, lot 61 (as Le Maire Poussin); EXHIBITED Heim Gallery, London 1990, no.31; LITERATURE G. Waagen, Galleries and Cabinets of Art in Great Britain, vol. IV, 1857, p.151 (as Nicolas Poussin); A. Blunt, 'Jean Lemaire: painter of architectural fantasies', in The Burlington Magazine, vol. LXXXIII, no. 487, October 1943, p.242, p.II D; E. Brunetti, 'Some unpublished works by Codazzi, Salucci, Lemaire and Patel', in The Burlington Magazine, vol. C, September 1958, p.315, reproduced p.317, fig.27; A. Busiri Vici, 'Opere inedite Romane di Jean Lemaire', in Palatino, vol. IX, 1965, p.168; L. Salerno, Landscape Painters of the Seventeenth Century in Rome, Rome 1976, vol. II, p.488, reproduced p.491, pl. 80.3, vol. III, p.1048; M. Bellamy (ed.), Three Eyes: the old master paintings from different viewpoints, Heim gallery, London, June 6th to August 10th, 1990, London 1990, p. 92, no. 31; D.Jaffé, 'Exhibition Reviews', in The Burlington Magazine, vol. CXXXII, no. 1049, August 1990, p.591, reproduced fig.40; M.Fagiolo dell'Arco, Jean Lemaire, pittore "antiquario", Rome 1996, p.80, reproduced p.81, fig. 6.39 (detail), p.192, cat. no. 35, reproduced p.193. NOTE The sarcophagus of St. Helena, which Lemaire would have found at the Casino al Quirinale, depicts the Rape of Proserpina. This bas-relief, very popular at the time, appears in two entries of François Perrier's Icones et Segmenta (1645, plates 15-16), was engraved by Bernardino Capitelli (from Cassiano del Pozzo's workshop) and can be found on a page of the Museo Cartaceo (Windsor Castle). Lemaire shifts the rape itself to the very centre of the design, flanked on the left by the embracing Oceanides with the armed Minerva, and on the right by the quadriga of rearing horses with Mercury, and Earth lying down with a cornucopia. That the sarcophagus with the Rape of Proserpina exists in so many versions (Palazzo Barberini, Musée du Louvre) only attests to its fame; indeed, another was found in the Villa Medici (G.A.Mansuelli, Galleria degli Uffizi: Le Sculture, 1958, no.257c), and another owned by Vincenzo Giustiniani, today in Rome, Palazzo Rospigliosi, is known through two drawings by Nicolas Poussin, one in Moscow, Pushkin Museum, and the other in Chantilly (P.Rosenberg, L.-A.Prat (ed.), Nicolas Poussin. La collection du Musée Condé à Chantilly, Paris 1994, p. 190, no. 81, reproduced). The subject of the present work, the flight into Egypt, is echoed in the shape of the pyramid in the mid-distance, while the violence of the massacre from which the holy family are fleeing is reflected in the story carved on the sarcophagus behind them. A smaller version of the present work can be found in Rome, private collection (see M.Fagiolo dell'Arco, under Literature, p.192, cat. no. 36, reproduced p.193). While the present work is not dated, Fagiolo dell'Arco places it between 1632 and 1638, during the period when Lemaire fell under the influence of Nicolas Poussin.
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