True Connoisseurship: The Collection of Ezra & Cecile Zilkha

View full screen - View 1 of Lot 65. A CONCERT IN AN ELEGANT INTERIOR, WITH A HARP PLAYER AND A FLUTIST, WITH VARIOUS ONLOOKERS, INCLUDING ONE DANCING FEMALE HOLDING A FAN; A CONCERT IN AN ELEGANT INTERIOR, WITH A WOMAN PLAYING THE GUITAR ACCOMPANIED BY A YOUNG SINGER, AS THEIR TEACHER AND OTHERS LOOK ON.

LOUIS CHOQUET

A CONCERT IN AN ELEGANT INTERIOR, WITH A HARP PLAYER AND A FLUTIST, WITH VARIOUS ONLOOKERS, INCLUDING ONE DANCING FEMALE HOLDING A FAN; A CONCERT IN AN ELEGANT INTERIOR, WITH A WOMAN PLAYING THE GUITAR ACCOMPANIED BY A YOUNG SINGER, AS THEIR TEACHER AND OTHERS LOOK ON

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November 20, 10:09 PM GMT

Estimate

20,000 - 30,000 USD

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LOUIS CHOQUET

A CONCERT IN AN ELEGANT INTERIOR, WITH A HARP PLAYER AND A FLUTIST, WITH VARIOUS ONLOOKERS, INCLUDING ONE DANCING FEMALE HOLDING A FAN;

A CONCERT IN AN ELEGANT INTERIOR, WITH A WOMAN PLAYING THE GUITAR ACCOMPANIED BY A YOUNG SINGER, AS THEIR TEACHER AND OTHERS LOOK ON

the former indistinctly signed lower left: Ch...

the latter signed and dated center right, on the case: Choquet 1789

a pair, both oil on panel

each: 9 1/2 by 12 3/4 in.; 24.1 by 32.4 cm

Anonymous sale, Paris, Hotel Drouot, 6 December 1935, lots 12 and 13

The present pair of elegant interior scenes brimming with musicians and singers were painted by Louis Choquet, a French painter, draughtsman, and miniaturist who studied under Aubry and was active from the end of the 18th until the early 19th centuries, exhibiting at the Paris Salon from 1808 - 1824. Very few works are known by this rare artist. In addition to the present pair, two other works by Choquet titled The Prayer and The Vigil and notably more solemn in content, titled The Prayer and The Vigil, were offered in the same 1935 sale. Three of his illustrations for a children's book are today in the Morgan Library and Museum, New York (inv. nos. 1964.26.1-3).