Louis-Nicolas van Blarenberghe | 1716 - 1794 | Fête champêtre

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July 15, 12:29 PM GMT

Estimate

3,000 - 5,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property from the Estate of a Scottish collector

Louis-Nicolas van Blarenberghe

1716 - 1794

Fête champêtre

Watercolour and bodycolour on vellum, two-coloured gold mount with silver-gilt support

55 by 75 mm.

David David-Weill (1871-1952), inv. no. 697, until 1936;
with Wildenstein, Paris;
Sir Charles Clore (1905-1979), London;
his executor's sale, London, Sotheby's, 10 November 1986, lot 90;
Dr Erika Pohl-Stroher (1919-2916);
her executor's sale, London, Sotheby's, 6 December 2018, lot 99

London, Garrard, An Exhibition of Important 18th Century & Early 19th Century Miniatures and Enamels, 1961, no. 198

L. Gillet, et al., Miniatures and Enamels from the D. David-Weill Collection, Paris, 1957, p. 308, no. 198, illust. p. 309

Van Blarenberghe descended from a family of Flemish painters. He was, and still is, celebrated for his spirited gouaches which were often mounted onto boxes. The Louvre, Paris has a major collection of his work, and there are several fine examples in the Wallace Collection, London.

This work has a very fine provenance, belong to two of the greatest collectors of portrait miniatures of the 20^th century; David David-Weill and more recently Dr Erika Pohl-Stroher.