2007 Catalogue - Colnaghi

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CONTENTS 2005/6: TWO YEARS IN REVIEW AT COLNAGHI By Jeremy Howard PAINTINGS 1. PAUL BRIL An extensive mountainous coastal Landscape with Brigands abducting Theagenese and Chariclea 18 2. FRANS FRANCKEN THE YOUNGER Virgil in a Basket 20 3. JAN BRUEGHEL THE YOUNDGER Still-Life of a Crown Imperial Lily, a Peony, Roses, Tulips and other Flowers in a Wooden Tub 22 4. DAVID TENIERS THE YOUNGER Monkeys drinking and smoking and Monkeys playing Cards 24 5. NICHOLAS MAES Group Portrait of a Family in an Italianate Garden with a Fountain 26 6. JOHANNES VAN BRONCHORST A Lady playing a Guitar on a Balcony 30 7. ABRAHAM BRUEGHEL Still-Life of a Watermelon, Cherries, Peaches, Apricots, Plums, Pomegranate and Figs with Lilies, Roses, Morning Glory and other Flowers on an Acanthus Stone Relief, a mountainous Landscape beyond 32 8. RACHEL RUYSCH Roses, Tulips and other Flowers in a Glass Vase on a Stone Ledge 34 9. JAN VAN HUYSUM Still-Life of Grapes and a Peach on a Table-Top 36 10. JEAN-LOUIS DEMARNE, CALLED DEMARNETTE The Horse Market 38 11. LUCAS CRANACH THE ELDER AND STUDIO The Ill-matched Lovers 40 12. ROBERT GRIFFIER Summer: An extensive Rhenish Landscape with Boats at a Quayside and Peasants by an Inn and Winter: A frozen Winter Landscape with Peasants 42 6 13. PHILIP MERCIER A Young Girl reading by Candlelight 44 14. CARLO DOLCI Christ carrying the Cross and Madonna 46 15. Attr. to GIOVANNI MARIA BOTTALLA, CALLED IL RAFFAELLINO Bacchus, Temperance and Cupid 50 16. JEAN-FRANÇOIS DE TROY Salmacis and Hermaphroditus andVenus and Adonis 52 17. NICOLAS LANCRET Le Menuet 56 18. FRANÇOIS BOUCHER Une Dame à sa Toilette: A Lady applying a Beauty-Spot 58 19. CLAUDE-JOSEPH VERNET Storm in the Port of Livorno 62 20. JEAN HUBER Voltaire narrating a Fable 64 21. HUBERT ROBERT A Capriccio with Troubadours and Washerwomen by a Basin amongst Roman Ruins, a Pyramid beyond 66 22. LOUIS-ROLLAND TRINQUESSE Portrait of Charles Grant, Vicomte de Vaux, in uniform as a Lieutenant Colonel of the Garde du Roi, attended by his Groom with their Horses, a Fortress beyond 68 23. JACQUES SABLET La Tarantelle: An evening coastal Landscape with Neapolitan Peasants dancing the Tarantella 70 24. MARGUERITE GÉRARD La Bonne Nouvelle 74 25. MARGUERITE GÉRARD Le Petit Messager 76 FOOTNOTES 78
2005/6 TWO YEARS IN REVIEW AT COLNAGHI During the last two years since our 2004 review, <strong>Colnaghi</strong> have sold a number of important Old Master pictures to private collectors and museum clients on both sides of the Atlantic. These range in date from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries and have been drawn from both the Northern and the Italian and Spanish schools. Our London and Munich galleries have also become involved in new areas, hosting exhibitions ranging from Victorian photography to contemporary art. What follows is just a selection of highlights from some of our recent sales. Earliest in date is the wonderful painting of Christ Blessing the Children [fig 1] by the German Renaissance master, Lucas Cranach the Elder, which was sold to a private collection. Although there are a number of repetitions of the subject in Cranach’s oeuvre, such as the painting of 1538 now in the Kunsthalle, Hamburg, this is considered to be the earliest version of the subject and is particularly notable for the psychological power and vivid characterisation seen in the vigorously painted heads of the Apostles, whose disapproving reactions are contrasted with the feelings of adoration Fig. 1 Lucas Cranach the Elder (1472 – 1553) and studio Christ Blessing the Children Acquired by a private collector 7 visible on the faces of the children and their mothers. This subject was particularly popular with the Protestant reformers because of the fact that it was taken to endorse the idea of infant baptism and also the Lutheran concept of salvation through faith rather than ecclesiastical intercession. Since Cranach’s patrons, the Electors of Saxony, were at the centre of the Protestant Reformation and Cranach himself was a close friend of Martin Luther and godfather to his children, the subject had particular resonance for both the artist and his patrons. Very different in character and religious sensibility is the powerful painting of St Andrew [fig 2] by Jusepe de Ribera, the Spanish follower of Caravaggio, who spent most of his working life in Naples: a picture redolent of the art produced in Italy in the wake of the Counter Reformation. OPPOSITE: Fig. 2 Jusepe de Ribera, detto Lo Spagnoletto (1591 – 1652) Saint Andrew Acquired by a private collector
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Page 13 and 14: Fig. 9 Johann Georg Platzer (1704 -
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Page 19: Literature: To be included (and rep
Page 23: 03 Jan Brueghel the Younger (Antwer
Page 29: Provenance: Sir Francis Cook, 1st B
Page 33: 06 Johannes van Bronchorst (Utrecht
Page 37: Provenance: Commissioned by Elector
Page 41: 10 Jean-Louis Demarne, called Demar
Page 45: Provenance: Anon. Sale; Christie's,
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Page 53: Provenance: Possibly in the collect
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Venus and Adonis depicts a passiona
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Provenance: Possibly Count Tessin,
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Provenance: Anon. Sale, Paris, Drou
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Provenance: Comte de Castellane; Vi
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Provenance: Cardinal Joseph Fesch,
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Provenance: Anon. Sale; Paris, 24 D
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01 PAUL BRIL An extensive mountaino
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18 FRANÇOIS BOUCHER Une Dame à sa
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