The Pleasure of Objects: The Ian & Carolina Irving Collection
The Pleasure of Objects: The Ian & Carolina Irving Collection
Meiffren Conte
Still Life with Hercules Candlestick and Other objets de vertu
Auction Closed
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
"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
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
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