Old Master & 19th Century Paintings Evening Auction

Old Master & 19th Century Paintings Evening Auction

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Property from a European Private Collection

Louise Moillon

Still life with a bowl of apricots, peaches and plums, all on a ledge

Auction Closed

December 6, 06:47 PM GMT

Estimate

600,000 - 800,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property from a European Private Collection


Louise Moillon

Paris 1610–1696

Still life with a bowl of apricots, peaches and plums, all on a ledge


oil on panel

unframed: 34.5 x 51.5 cm.; 13 2/3 x 20 ¼ in.

framed: 60 x 78 cm.; 23⅝ x 30¾ in.

Please note the painting will be included in Eric Coatalem's forthcoming catalogue raisonné dedicated to the artist.

Madame Manet, Paris, 1951;

Anonymous sale, Paris, Ader, 17 June 1977, lot 15;

With Dr. Curt Benedict, Paris and Berlin, 1977;

With Galerie Judy Kraus, London, 1977;

Anonymous sale ('Property from a Private Collection'), London, Sotheby's, 7 July 1993, lot 40;

Anonymous sale, Paris, Sotheby's, 26 June 2014, lot 17;

Where acquired by the present collector.

J. Wilhelm, 'Louise Moillon', in L'Oeil, no. 21, September 1956, reproduced p. 13;

M. Faré, La nature morte en France: son histoire et son évolution du XVIIe au XXe siècle, Geneva 1962, vol. 2, reproduced pl. 46;

M. Faré, Le grand siècle de la nature morte en France: le XVIIe siècle, Paris 1974, reproduced p. 58;

C. Wright, The French Painters of the Seventeenth Century, London 1985, p. 234;

D. Alsina, Louyse Moillon: la nature morte au Grand Siècle, Saint Etienne 2009, p. 150, no. 26, reproduced in colour.

Paris, Galerie Charpentier, Nature mortes françaises du XVIIe siècle à nos jours, 1951, no. 119.