Pierre-Jacques Volaire
Nocturnal Capriccio of Rome Burning
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May 21, 02:59 PM GMT
Estimate
300,000 - 500,000 USD
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Pierre-Jacques Volaire
Toulon 1729 - 1799 Naples
Nocturnal Capriccio of Rome Burning
signed and dated lower right: Le cher p.j. Volaire / fecit in roma 1767.
oil on canvas
canvas: 39 ½ by 54 ⅛ in.; 100.3 by 137.5 cm
framed: 47 ⅜ by 62 ¼ in.; 120.3 by 158.1 cm
Private collection, Europe;
With Bernheimer, Munich, by 1999;
From whom acquired by Jordan and Thomas A. Saunders III, 2000.
H. Gassner, in Die Nacht, exhibition catalogue, E. Billeter, H. Gassner, and C. Vilati (eds.), Munich 1998, p. 250, cat. no. 145, reproduced;
K.O. Bernheimer, Paintings, Munich 1999, pp. 60-64, reproduced (as dated 1764);
E. Beck, Le chevalier Volaire, un peintre français à Naples au XVIIIe siècle, Naples 2004, pp. 19-20 (as dated 1764);
I. Kuznetsova and E. Sharnova, State Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Painting Collection, France, Moscow 2005, p. 75, under cat. no. 61;
E. Beck Saiello, Pierre Jacques Volaire, 1729-1799, dit le Chevalier Volaire, Paris 2010, pp. 54, 200, 219, 260, 326, cat. no. P.4, reproduced, and under cat. nos. P.42, P.132, D.54 bis (as dated 1764);
A.K. Wheelock Jr., With Observation and Imagination: Still Lifes, Genre Scenes, Portraits, and Landscapes from the Saunders Collection, A.K. Wheelock, Jr. (ed.), exhibition catalogue, New York 2021, pp. 149-152, 178, cat. no. 36, reproduced.
Munich, Haus der Kunst, Die Nacht, 1 November 1998 - 7 February 1999, no. 145;
Richmond, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Elegance and Wonder: Masterpieces of European Art from the Jordan and Thomas A. Saunders III Collection, 20 March 2023 - 30 January 2025, no. 36.