Meiffren Conte
Still Life with Hercules Candlestick and Other objets de vertu
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January 30, 06:14 PM GMT
Estimate
15,000 - 20,000 USD
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Meiffren Conte
Marseille 1628 or 1632 - 1705
Still Life with Hercules Candlestick and Other objets de vertu
oil on canvas
canvas: 36 ⅜ by 56 ¾ in.; 92.4 by 114.1 cm.
framed: 45 ½ by 66 ⅜ in.; 115.6 by 168.6 cm.
Galerie Heim-Gairac, Paris, by 1969
Dr. Claus Virch (1927-2012), New York, 1970
Private sale, Sotheby's, New York, 2015
Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, Paris; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Art Institute of Chicago, France in the Golden Age: Seventeenth-Century French Paintings in American Collections, 29 January-28 November 1982, no. 21
"Meiffren Conte réapparaît," in Connaissance des Arts 216 (February 1970), p. 37, illustrated
M. Faré, Le grand siècle de la nature morte en France: le XVIIe siècle, Fribourg 1974, pp. 226-27, illustrated
N. Volle, in La peinture en Provence au XVIIe siècle, exhibition catalogue, P. Alfonsi (ed.), Marseilles 1978, pp. 18, 168, illustrated
P. Rosenberg, in France in the Golden Age: Seventeenth-Century French Paintings in American Collections, exhibition catalogue, New York 1982, pp. 239-40, cat. no. 21, illustrated pp. 208, 240
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