Jean-Baptiste Hilair

Lot 257: JEAN-BAPTISTE HILAIRE

Name: JEAN-BAPTISTE HILAIRE
Brand: Sotheby's
SKU: 25f8a35133

Est: £15,000 GBP - £20,000 GBP

Sotheby'sLondon, United KingdomApril 24, 2012

Item Overview

Description

FRENCH
1753-1822
THE RUINS OF MILETUS AND THE MAEANDER VALLEY
bears title Vue des ruines de Milet et du cours du Méandre centre; and signature JB Hilaire on the mount
pen and ink, ink wash, and watercolour over pencil on paper
22.5 by 35cm., 9 by 13¾in.

Artist or Maker

Jean-Baptiste Hilair

Exhibited

Paris, Hôtel de la chambre syndicale de la curiosité et des beaux-arts, Exposition des petits maîtres français du XVIIIe siècle, 1920, no. 301
Paris, Petit Palais, Paysages français de Poussin à Corot, 1925, no. 521
Paris, Galerie Patrick Perrin, Dessins de maîtres français, de Lebrun à Rodin, 1991, no. 11
Turkophilia, Paris 2011

Literature

Choiseul-Gouffier 1782, vol. I, pp. 180-181, pl. 115, illustrated
Gaston Migeon 1924, pl. LVI, illustrated
Paris 2011, p. 96

Provenance

Marius Paulme (with the collector's mark lower right, Lugt 1910); his sale: Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 13 May 1929, lot 103
Marquis de Larrare

Auction Details

An Eye For Opulence- Art of the Ottoman Empire

Sotheby's

April 24, 2012, 12:00 PM GMT

34-35 New Bond Street, London, LDN, W1A 2AA, UK

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