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Jean-Baptiste Jouvenet
Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 USD
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Description
- Jean-Baptiste Jouvenet
- Apotheosis of St. Nicholas
- Pen and brown ink and wash heightened with white and touches of pink over black chalk on prepared paper
- 21 1/2 x 12 3/8 inches
Provenance
Sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 23-25 January 1980, lot 189 (as Attributed to Jouvenet),
where acquired by the present owner
where acquired by the present owner
Condition
Laid down. Overall in good condition. There are a few small holes, that have been made up, in the lower left corner of the sheet. Medium remains strong.
Sold in carved and gilded frame.
In response to your inquiry, we are pleased to provide you with a general report of the condition of the property described above. Since we are not professional conservators or restorers, we urge you to consult with a restorer or conservator of your choice who will be better able to provide a detailed, professional report. Prospective buyers should inspect each lot to satisfy themselves as to condition and must understand that any statement made by Sotheby's is merely a subjective qualified opinion.
NOTWITHSTANDING THIS REPORT OR ANY DISCUSSIONS CONCERNING CONDITION OF A LOT, ALL LOTS ARE OFFERED AND SOLD "AS IS" IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE CONDITIONS OF SALE PRINTED IN THE CATALOGUE.
In response to your inquiry, we are pleased to provide you with a general report of the condition of the property described above. Since we are not professional conservators or restorers, we urge you to consult with a restorer or conservator of your choice who will be better able to provide a detailed, professional report. Prospective buyers should inspect each lot to satisfy themselves as to condition and must understand that any statement made by Sotheby's is merely a subjective qualified opinion.
NOTWITHSTANDING THIS REPORT OR ANY DISCUSSIONS CONCERNING CONDITION OF A LOT, ALL LOTS ARE OFFERED AND SOLD "AS IS" IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE CONDITIONS OF SALE PRINTED IN THE CATALOGUE.
Catalogue Note
Few composition drawings by Jouvenet are known, but this work can be convincingly compared in style with, for example, his study, in Leipzig, for the painting of The Last Supper exhibited at the Salon of 1704 (location unknown).1 Other composition drawings by Jouvenet were published by Antoine Schnapper in Master Drawings in 1967.2 It is possible that this drawing relates to a series of paintings illustrating the life of St. Nicholas, commissioned in 1687 for the Chapelle Saint-Nicolas in the former parish church of Versailles, but those paintings are now untraced, and their compositions unknown.3
1. A. Schnapper, Jean Jouvenet, Paris 1974, nos. 180 and 98*, respectively, reproduced figs. 100-101
2. A. Schnapper, 'Les Compositions of Jean Jouvenet,' Master Drawings, V, no. 2 (1967), pp. 135-143, pls. 1-10
3. Schnapper, op. cit., 1974, p. 190