Details
JEAN-FRANÇOIS DE TROY (PARIS 1679-1752 ROME)
The Reading Party
signed and dated 'DE TROY / 1735' (lower left)
oil on canvas
32 1/4 x 25 1/2 in. (81.8 x 64.7 cm.)
Provenance
with Clément, Paris, by 1865.
(Probably) Baron Solomon Albert, ‘Salbert’, de Rothschild (1844-1911), Vienna, and by inheritance to his son,
Baron Louis Nathaniel von Rothschild (1882-1955), Vienna, (probably) by 1931.
with Wildenstein, Paris, 1934.
Mozelle Sassoon (1872-1964), by 1937, and by descent to her daughter,
Violet Fitzgerald (1894-1970); (†) Christie’s, London, 7 July 1972, lot 38 (£50,400 to the following).
with Edward Speelman, London, from whom acquired by the present owner.
Literature
A.-J. Dézallier D'Argenville, Abrégé De La Vie Des Plus Fameux Peintres, Paris, 1762, VI, p. 373.
Chévalier de Valory, Mémoires inédits sur la vie et les ouvrages des membres de l'Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture, Paris, 1854, II, p. 275, as painted in 1727.
C. Blanc, Histoire des peintres de toutes les écoles depuis la Renaissance jusqu'à nos jours, Paris, 1865, II, p. 6, note 1, and pp. 12 and 16.
L. Auvray and É. Bellier de la Chavignerie, Dictionnaire Général Des Artistes De L'école Française, Paris, 1885, II, p. 598.
G. Brière, ‘Detroy: 1679-1752’, L. Dimier, ed., Les Peintres Français du XVIIIe Siècle, Paris and Brussels, 1930, II, pp. 43-4, no. 24.
G. Brière, ‘L'exposition des chefs-d'oeuvre des musées de provence. École française, XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles', Bulletin de la Société de l'histoire de l'art français, Paris, 1931, p. 165, with a note ‘Est-ce ce tableau qui se retrouve aujourd’hui dans la collection de M. le baron Louis de Rothschild, à Vienne?’.
A. Leroy, Histoire de la peinture française au XVIIIe siècle, Paris, 1934, p. 165.
G. Wildenstein, La Peinture française au XVIIIe siècle, Paris, 1937, no. 16, illustrated.
M. Fried, Absorption and Theatricality: Painting and Beholder in the Age of Diderot, Berkley, New York and London, 1980, p. 195, note 90.
C. Leribault, Jean-François-de Troy (1679-1752), Paris, 2002, p. 340, no. P.231, illustrated.
C. Leribault, in The Age of Watteau, Chardin and Fragonard – Masterpieces of French Genre Painting, exhibition catalogue, New Haven and London, 2003, p. 170, under no. 26, fig. 97.
R.L. Whyte, Painting as Social Conversation: The petit sujet in the Ancien Regime, PhD Thesis, University of Toronto, 2008, p. 45.
J. Ebeling, Tableaux de mode - Studien zum aristokratischen Genrebild in Frankreich in der ersten Hälfte des 18. Jahrhunderts, PhD Thesis, Philipps-Universität Marburg, 2012, pp. 8, 63, 92, 403 and 421, fig. 6.
Exhibited
Paris, Georges Wildenstein, La peinture française au XVIIIe siècle, 1937, no. 16 (lent by Madame Sassoon).
Special Notice
Christie's has provided a minimum price guarantee and has a direct financial interest in this lot. Christie's has financed all or a part of such interest through a third party. Such third parties generally benefit financially if a guaranteed lot is sold. See the Important Notices in the Conditions of Sale for more information.
Details
JEAN-FRANÇOIS DE TROY (PARIS 1679-1752 ROME)
The Reading Party
signed and dated 'DE TROY / 1735' (lower left)
oil on canvas
32 1/4 x 25 1/2 in. (81.8 x 64.7 cm.)
Provenance
with Clément, Paris, by 1865.
(Probably) Baron Solomon Albert, ‘Salbert’, de Rothschild (1844-1911), Vienna, and by inheritance to his son,
Baron Louis Nathaniel von Rothschild (1882-1955), Vienna, (probably) by 1931.
with Wildenstein, Paris, 1934.
Mozelle Sassoon (1872-1964), by 1937, and by descent to her daughter,
Violet Fitzgerald (1894-1970); (†) Christie’s, London, 7 July 1972, lot 38 (£50,400 to the following).
with Edward Speelman, London, from whom acquired by the present owner.
Literature
A.-J. Dézallier D'Argenville, Abrégé De La Vie Des Plus Fameux Peintres, Paris, 1762, VI, p. 373.
Chévalier de Valory, Mémoires inédits sur la vie et les ouvrages des membres de l'Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture, Paris, 1854, II, p. 275, as painted in 1727.
C. Blanc, Histoire des peintres de toutes les écoles depuis la Renaissance jusqu'à nos jours, Paris, 1865, II, p. 6, note 1, and pp. 12 and 16.
L. Auvray and É. Bellier de la Chavignerie, Dictionnaire Général Des Artistes De L'école Française, Paris, 1885, II, p. 598.
G. Brière, ‘Detroy: 1679-1752’, L. Dimier, ed., Les Peintres Français du XVIIIe Siècle, Paris and Brussels, 1930, II, pp. 43-4, no. 24.
G. Brière, ‘L'exposition des chefs-d'oeuvre des musées de provence. École française, XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles', Bulletin de la Société de l'histoire de l'art français, Paris, 1931, p. 165, with a note ‘Est-ce ce tableau qui se retrouve aujourd’hui dans la collection de M. le baron Louis de Rothschild, à Vienne?’.
A. Leroy, Histoire de la peinture française au XVIIIe siècle, Paris, 1934, p. 165.
G. Wildenstein, La Peinture française au XVIIIe siècle, Paris, 1937, no. 16, illustrated.
M. Fried, Absorption and Theatricality: Painting and Beholder in the Age of Diderot, Berkley, New York and London, 1980, p. 195, note 90.
C. Leribault, Jean-François-de Troy (1679-1752), Paris, 2002, p. 340, no. P.231, illustrated.
C. Leribault, in The Age of Watteau, Chardin and Fragonard – Masterpieces of French Genre Painting, exhibition catalogue, New Haven and London, 2003, p. 170, under no. 26, fig. 97.
R.L. Whyte, Painting as Social Conversation: The petit sujet in the Ancien Regime, PhD Thesis, University of Toronto, 2008, p. 45.
J. Ebeling, Tableaux de mode - Studien zum aristokratischen Genrebild in Frankreich in der ersten Hälfte des 18. Jahrhunderts, PhD Thesis, Philipps-Universität Marburg, 2012, pp. 8, 63, 92, 403 and 421, fig. 6.
Exhibited
Paris, Georges Wildenstein, La peinture française au XVIIIe siècle, 1937, no. 16 (lent by Madame Sassoon).
Special Notice
Christie's has provided a minimum price guarantee and has a direct financial interest in this lot. Christie's has financed all or a part of such interest through a third party. Such third parties generally benefit financially if a guaranteed lot is sold. See the Important Notices in the Conditions of Sale for more information.
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