Piat-Joseph Sauvage

Private collection, Brussels;
Anonymous sale, New York, Sotheby's 21 May 1998, lot 129;
There purchased by the present collectors.

Brussels, Musée d'Ixelles, 1770-1830, Autour, du néo-classicisme en Belgique, 1985-86, pp. 268-69, cat. no. 236.

The marble support has a repaired, clean, diagonal break, running approximately 8 1/2 in., from the right of the upper edge toward the center of the lower edge. The crack has been well restored with retouching localized to that area and other possible very minor retouches in the outlines of the figures. The painting is ready to hang in its present state. Offered in a carved gilt wood frame.
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A similar painting by Sauvage, also painted in imitation of bronze on marble and dated 1760, is in the Museum de Bijloke, Ghent.