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Property from a French Private Collection

Jean Jouvenet

Birth of Bacchus

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February 1, 04:16 PM GMT

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200,000 - 300,000 USD

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Property from a French Private Collection

Jean Jouvenet

Rouen 1644 - 1717 Paris

Birth of Bacchus


oil on canvas

canvas: 62 ¼ by 50 ¾ in.; 158.0 by 129.0 cm.

framed: 70 ¼ by 58 ½ in.; 178.4 by 148.7 cm.

Commissioned from the artist by Louis, Dauphin of France (1661-1711) for the dining room of the Château de Meudon in 1700;

Possibly anonymous sale, London, 3 June 1829, lot 63;

Where acquired by Dujardin;

J. de Vigny;

His sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 8 May 1911, lot 8 for 4,000 francs (as L'Enfance d'Hercule, French School, 18th Century);

Anonymous sale, Paris, Hotel Drouot, 28 November 1985, lot 217;

Where acquired by La Scala, Paris;

Private collection.

Paris, Grand Palais, Biennale des Antiquaires, 1986.

"Memoire pour servir à l'Histoire de la Peinture, Vie de feu M. Jouvenet," in Mercure de France (July 1730), p. 1489;

A. Dezallier d'Argenville, Abregé de la vie des plus fameux peintres..., Paris 1745, vol. II, p. 356;

E.-H. de Grouchy, Meudon, Bellevue et Chaville, Paris 1893, p. 76;

N. Bailly and F. Engerand (eds.), Inventaire des tableaux du roy : inventaires des collections de la Couronne, rédigé en 1709 et 1710, Paris 1899, p. 411;

J. Guiffrey (ed.), Comptes des bâtiments du roi sous le règne de Louis XIV, 1706-1715, vol. V, Paris 1901, (1706) pp. 38-39; (1710) p. 448;

P. Marcel, La peinture française au début du dix-huitième siècle, 1690-1721, Paris 1906, p. 199;

P. Biver, Histoire du Château de Meudon, Paris 1923, pp. 149, 460-461, 472, 485, 533;

A. Schnapper, “Le Grand Dauphin et les tableaux de Meudon,” in Revue de l’Art 1-2 (1968), pp. 57-64, reproduced fig. 3;

A. Schnapper, Jean Jouvenet 1644-1717 et la peinture d'histoire à Paris, Paris 1974, pp. 140, 205, 229, cat. no. 87, reproduced fig. 86;

C. Bailey, The Loves of the Gods: Mythological Painting from Watteau to David, exhibition catalogue, New York 1992, pp. 107, 136, 138-140, reproduced p. 140, fig. 3;

The Language of the Nude: Four Centuries of Drawing the Human Body, exhibition catalogue, Burlington 2008, p. 106;

A. Schnapper, Jean Jouvenet 1644-1717 et la peinture d'histoire à Paris, C. Gouzi (ed.), Paris 2010, pp. 104-105, 254, cat. no. P126, reproduced.