Lot 655
  • 655

Attributed to Pierre-Jacques Volaire

Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 USD
bidding is closed

Description

  • Pierre-Jacques Volaire
  • A moonlit river landscape with figures fleeing a burning city 
  • oil on canvas
  • 29 by 39 in.; 73.7 by 99.1 cm. 

Provenance

Anonymous sale, New York, Sotheby's, 20 January 1983, lot 46 (as by Pierre-Jacques Volaire);
Anonymous sale, New York, Sotheby's, 28 January 2000, lot 100 (as by Pierre-Jacques Volaire);
There acquired by the present collectors. 

Literature

E. Beck Saiello, Pierre Jacques Volaire dit le Chevalier Volaire, Paris 2010, p. 306, cat. no. PR. 48 (as under peintures rejetés, as location unknown, and as known only through photographs).

Condition

The canvas is relined. This picture has been restored in the last 15 years and can probably be hung in its current state. Varnish is fresh, but UV light reveals scattered areas of retouching concentrated in lower right and upper right quadrants, as well as areas in the bridge and left sky. More selective retouches are visible within the craquelure. In a carved giltwood frame.
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