Louis Gauffier
Portrait of a Young Man with Mount Vesuvius Beyond
Auction Closed
May 21, 02:59 PM GMT
Estimate
40,000 - 60,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Louis Gauffier
Poitiers 1762 - 1801 Livorno
Portrait of a Young Man with Mount Vesuvius Beyond
oil on canvas, laid down on panel
canvas: 4 ⅛ by 3 ⅜ in.; 10.5 by 8.6 cm
framed: 5 ⅜ by 4 ⅝ in.; 13.7 by 11.7 cm
Anonymous sale, Monaco, Sotheby's, 19 June 1992, lot 264;
Where acquired by by Karl Lagerfeld (1933-2019), Paris;
His sale ("Old Master Paintings from the Lagerfeld Collection"), New York, Christie's, 23 May 2000, lot 51;
Where acquired by Johnny van Haeften on behalf of Jordan and Thomas A. Saunders III.
Richmond, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Elegance and Wonder: Masterpieces of European Art from the Jordan and Thomas A. Saunders III Collection, 20 March 2023 - 30 January 2025.
M. Hilaire and P. Stépanoff, Le voyage en Italie de Louis Gauffier, exhibition catalogue, Ghent 2022, p. 89, reproduced fig. 6.
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