Lot 195: Nicolas-Henri Jeaurat de Bertry (Paris 1728-after 1796)

Nicolas-Henri Jeaurat de Bertry (Paris 1728-after 1796)
A young girl with a violin, other instruments and a musical score on a draped table
oil on canvas
40 x 39 5/8 in. (81 cm x 100.5 cm.)

Sotheby's, London, 8 July 1999, lot 219, when acquired by the present owner (£34,500).

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VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 17.5% on the buyer's premium.
The pupil of his uncle, the artist Etienne Jeaurat, Jeaurat de Bertry was hugely influenced in his still life painting by Chardin. Received into the Academy in 1756, he went on to have notable successes at the Paris Salon and was taken on as peintre de la Reine by Queen Marie Leczinska at Versailles. Still lifes by him can be seen at Fontainebleau, the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris, the Musée d'Auxerre and the Musée Carnavalet, Paris.