Lot 136: Étienne Aubry (Versailles 1745-1781 Paris)

Étienne Aubry (Versailles 1745-1781 Paris)
Le Mariage Rompu
oil on canvas
35¼ x 46 in. (89.5 x 116.8 cm.)

Paris, Salon, 1777, no. 124.

Review of the Salon of 1777, Mercure de France, Deloynes, pp. 1096-1097.
Lettres pittoresques sur le Salon de 1777, IV Deloynes 190, p. 1049.
Conversations between Aglantine, a fourteen year old Creole girl and M. de Sauvigny, Deloynes 178, pp. 874-875.
M. de Sauvigny, Les tableaux du Louvre ou il n'y a pas le sens commun, histoire véritable, 1777, Deloynes 186, p. 935.
F. Ingersoll-Smouse, 'Quelques tableaux de genre inédits,' La Gazette des Beaux Arts, Paris, 1925, pp. 80-86.
M. Florisoone, Le dix-huitième siècle, Paris, 1948, p. 71.
J. Thuillier and A. Chatelet, La peinture française de le Nain à Fragonard, Paris, 1964, p. 229.
A. Brookner, Greuze, The Rise and Fall of an Eighteenth Century Phenomenon, London, 1972, pp. 142-143.
P. Rosenberg and M. Stewart, French Paintings 1500-1825, San Francisco, 1987, p. 105.
Salons de Bachaumont, introduction and analysis by Fabrice Faré, reprinted Jacques Laget, 1995, pp.70-71.

Pillot collection, Chatou, by 1925.
Anonymous sale; Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 10 June 1963.

From time to time, Christie's may offer a lot which it owns in whole or in part. This is such a lot.
Étienne Aubry (Versailles 1745-1781 Paris)
Le Mariage Rompu
oil on canvas
35¼ x 46 in. (89.5 x 116.8 cm.)