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Lot 156: Gérard de Lairesse (Liège 1640-1711 Amsterdam)

Est: £40,000 GBP - £60,000 GBPSold:
Christie'sLondon, United KingdomJuly 08, 2009

Item Overview

Description

Gérard de Lairesse (Liège 1640-1711 Amsterdam)
Nymphs and Bacchantes paying homage at the temple of Flora
signed 'G. de Lairesse f' (lower right)
oil on canvas
56¼ x 75½ in. (142.9 x 191.7 cm.)

Artist or Maker

Literature

J.-B. Lebrun, Recueil de gravures au trait, à l'eau forte et ombrée d'après un choix de tableaux de toutes les écoles, Paris, 1809, p. 86, fig. 162.
A. Roy, Gérard de Lairesse, Paris, 1992, p. 217, no. P.30 (illustrated).

Provenance

Jean-Baptiste Lebrun, by 1809.
Anonymous sale; Rheims, 4 March 1990, lot 209 (sold to the present owner).

Notes

THE PROPERTY OF AN AUSTRIAN COLLECTOR (lots 140, 142, 156, 160,, 162, 162-165, 173, 201, 204, 213, 261)
No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 15% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis.
Considered by Roy (oc. cit.) to be an important work within Lairesse's oeuvre, he dates it to circa 1667-70 by comparison with works such as the Golden Age (Potsdam, Sanssouci) and the Apollo and the Muses (St. Petersburg, Hermitage). A drawing after the picture (pen and wash; 29.1 x 38 cm.) is in the Staatliche Museen, Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin (inv. 13118).

Auction Details

Old Masters & 19th Century Art Day Sale

by
Christie's
July 08, 2009, 12:00 AM GMT

8 King Street, St. James's, London, LDN, SW1Y 6QT, UK