Lot 88
  • 88

Louis de Boulogne the Younger

Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 USD
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Description

  • Louis de Boulogne the Younger
  • Zephyr Crowning Flora
  • signed and dated Boullogne Jeune 1702 (lower left)

  • oil on canvas
  • 26 5/8 by 22 in.; 67.3 by 55.9 cm.

Provenance

Madame Falsan (née Watronville);
By whom bequeathed to Frédéric André, and thence by descent through Caroline Chaper to her son-in-law;
Edouard Zuel-Lennec;
Anonymous sale, New York, Christie's, New York, 25 May 1999, lot 26;
There acquired by the present owner.

Exhibited

Paris, Salon, 1704;
Paris, Galerie Cailleux, Les Étapes de la Création, 12 June - 13 July 1989, no. 1.

Literature

E. Standen, "Ovid's Metamorphoses: A Gobelins Tapestry Series", in The Metropolitan Museum Journal, XXIII, New York 1988, p. 171, reproduced fig. 31.

Condition

The canvas is lined. The surface of the work is in good overall condition. There is craquelure throughout the work. The paint is slightly flaking in hte upper center. Under UV; evidence of extensive inpainting throughout the work.
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