PAST SALES
We are happy to present a small selection of sales of interest made by the gallery. This is divided into three sections: Old Master Drawings, 19th & 20th Century Drawings, and Paintings, Oil Sketches, and Sculpture. The selection will be changed on a regular basis.
OLD MASTER DRAWINGS
CLAUDE GELLÉE, called CLAUDE LORRAIN
Chamagne (Lorraine) 1600-1682 Rome
Pastoral Landscape with a Figure by a Lake
Inscribed in chalk on the verso, Designe facto per ilm Principe Don Gaspare
Black chalk, pen and brown ink, brush with brown, grey and grey-brown washes, within the artist’s framing lines
7 ½ x 10 ⅝ inches
191 x 270 mm
JEAN-BAPTISTE GREUZE
Tournus 1725-1805 Paris
Tête d’enfant portant un bonnet, regardant à gauche
Inscribed, lower left, with the folder and inventory number of the Imperial Academy of Fine Arts, Saint Petersburg, 2 _ No 48., and stamped, lower left, with the mark of the Imperial Academy (Lugt 2699a); inscribed on the back of the mount, Tête d’enfant pour l’Accordée de Village; also, inscribed on a label on the old mount, in Russian, Грёзь Жань-Батист / 1725-1805
Red chalk
11 ⅝ x 9 ½ inches
296 x 240 mm
GIOVANNI DOMENICO TIEPOLO
Venice 1727–1804 Venice
The Holy Family Entering Memphis
Signed in pen and brown ink, lower left, Domo Tiepolo f, and inscribed in graphite with the number, 14; also, inscribed in a later hand, verso, Arrivée à jérusalem
Pen and brown ink and brown wash over black chalk
19 x 14 ⅞ inches
482 x 379 mm
19TH & 20TH CENTURY DRAWINGS
BARTOLOMEO PINELLI
Rome 1781–1835 Rome
Telemachus Relates his Adventures to Calypso as Mentor Listens, 1809
Signed and dated, verso, lower right, Pinelli fece 1809 / Roma; and inscribed, verso, upper right, Calipso prega Telemaco di terminare il raconta di sue aventure prima de giungere all Isola / del Cipro, and lower left, Coll. de grunling / N° 882 / Pinelli fec 1809/Romae. f 20.
Pen and black ink, with brush and grey and brown wash over traces of black chalk
16 ½ x 23 ¼ inches
420 x 590 mm
HENRI LEHMANN
Kiel 1814-1882 Paris
Reclining Male Figure Embracing a Woman and Two studies of his Left Arm: Study for the Painting “Rêve,” also called “Rêve d’Amour,” 1848
Marked with the studio stamp, lower left (Lugt 1664g), and dated, lower left, 17 juillet/48
Black and red chalk, partially stumped, heightened with white chalk
10 x 12 ⅜ inches
257 x 315 mm
PAINTINGS, OIL SKETCHES, & SCULPTURE
PIERRE-JEAN DAVID, called DAVID D’ANGERS
Angers 1788-1856 Paris
Charles-Nicolas, baron Fabvier (1782-1855), 1829
Signed and dated on the slate support, beneath the truncation, DAVID / 1829; also, inscribed on the left border with the name of the sitter, Colonel Fabvier
Wax model with traces of plaster on slate
Including the slate support, 5 ¼ x 4 ⅞ inches
13 x 12.4 cm
FRANÇOIS BONVIN
Paris 1817–1887 Saint-Germain-en-Laye
Nature morte aux oeufs, 1878
Signed and dated, lower right, F. Bonvin 78; also inscribed with a poem on the reverse of the panel, . . . Je souffre le martyre/Le temps de la joie et du rire -/Le bon temps – hélas est passé;/Mais, avant d’être trépassé,/En échange de tes étrennes/Pour que de moi tu te souviennes,/Sur la tombe à demi penché,/Voici l’oeuf dur que j’ai poché./Ton ami./f. Bonvin/24 février 1878.
Oil on panel
7 ⅝ x 9 ¾ inches
19.4 x 25 cm
WALTER GAY
Boston 1856-1937 Le Bréau, Fontainebleau
The Small Red Drawing Room of the Comtesse Robert de Fitz-James, Rue Constantine, Paris
Signed and inscribed, lower right, à Madame la Comtesse de Fitz James/hommages respectueux Walter Gay; label on the back of the panel numbered, 71
Oil on panel
16 ¹⁄₁₆ x 13 ⅜ inches
40.7 x 34 cm