Lot 170: PIERRE JOSEPH LOUIS DE CONINCK

PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION, CALIFORNIA

FRENCH, 1828-1910
LES CONFETTIS

measurements
58 1/4 by 45 3/8 in.

alternate measurements
148 by 115.2 cm

oil on canvas

PROVENANCE

Private Collection, California (since circa 1910)
Thence by descent to the present owners

EXHIBITED

Paris, Salon, 1873

LITERATURE

William A. Armstrong, ed. The Masterpieces of French art illustrated, being a biographical history of art in France, from the earliest period to and including the Salon of 1882, Philadelphia, 1883, n.p., photogravure illustrated opposite p. 160
Gustav Derudder, Le peintre Pierre de Coninck et ses amis, 1828-1910, Paris, 1914, p. 305

NOTE

In the present work de Coninck potrays a scene from Carnival when beautiful women threw trinkets and sweets from balconies to the crowds below. The work's companion piece is known as Moccoli (the "Feast of the Tapers"), its present location unknown.