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Lucien-François Feuchère

Homage to the Comte de Paroy

Auction Closed

January 31, 03:58 PM GMT

Estimate

40,000 - 60,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Lucien-François Feuchère

Paris circa 1750 – 1828

Homage to the Comte de Paroy


signed Feuchère and inscribed at the base Les Arts et L’industrie et Lui Doivent de la Reconnoissance (The Arts and Industry owe Recognition to Him [the Comte de Paroy]) and LE COMTE DE PAROY along the edge of the center medallion 


gilt-bronze and lapis lazuli in an ebonized wood frame

relief: 7 3/5 by 13 4/5 in.; 19.3 by 35 cm.

M. Tillard, 1902;

With Talabardon & Gautier, Paris, 2008;

From whom acquired.

Paris, Palais de Fontainebleau, Exposition Centennale de l’Art Français, 1900, no. 1647bis (as Jean-Jacques Feuchère 1807-1852, Hommage au Comte de Paroy, bas-relief doré);

Paris, Talabardon & Gautier, Le XIXe Siècle, 5 - 31 December 2008, no. 3.

Le XIXe Siècle, exhibition catalogue, London December 2008, pp. 12-17;

J. Baillio, “Jean Philippe Guy Le Gentil, comte de Paroy (1750–1824), Printmaker, Industrialist and Collector of Ancient Greek Vases—An Intrepid Survivor of the French Revolution”, forthcoming.