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.
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.
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.
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