The Deceptive Sleep (Le Sommeil Trompeur)
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May 21, 02:59 PM GMT
Estimate
200,000 - 300,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Louis-Léopold Boilly
La Bassée 1761 - 1845 Paris
The Deceptive Sleep (Le Sommeil Trompeur)
signed lower right: L. Boilly
oil on canvas
canvas: 15 ¾ by 12 ¾ in.; 40.0 by 32.4 cm
framed: 22 ⅞ by 19 ⅞ in.; 58.1 by 50.5 cm
Collection d'Yvon, Paris;
Their anonymous sale ("Collection d'un amateur"), Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 27-28 January 1881, lot 4;
Henri Pereire (1841-1932), Paris, by 1898;
Collection Courvoisier, 1924;
T. Grange, London, 1951;
Adrian Ward-Jackson (1950-1991), London, by 1990;
His estate in joint ownership with Eugene V. Thaw and Co., New York;
By whom anonymously sold, Monaco, Sotheby's, 18 June 1992, lot 70;
Where acquired by Karl Lagerfeld (1933-2019), Paris;
His sale ("Old Master Paintings from the Lagerfeld Collection"), New York, Christie's, 23 May 2000, lot 141;
Where acquired by Johnny van Haeften on behalf of Jordan and Thomas A. Saunders III.
P. Larousse, Grand dictionnaire universel du XIXe siècle, Paris 1867, p. 877;
H. Harrisse, L.-L. Boilly, peintre, dessinateur, et lithographe; sa vie et son oeuvre, Paris 1898, p. 131, cat. no. 511;
E. Bréton and P. Zuber, Louis-Léopold Boilly, 1761-1845: Le peintre de la société parisienne de Louis XVI à Louis-Philippe, Paris 2019, vol. II, pp. 508-509, 861, cat. no. 212 P, reproduced;
C. Blumenfeld, Parfums d'interdit, L'audace sous le pinceau de Jean-Honoré Fragonard, Marguerite Gérard et leurs pairs, exhibition catalogue, Grasse 2018, p. 80, reproduced;
S. Cordier, in With Observation and Imagination: Still Lifes, Genre Scenes, Portraits, and Landscapes from the Saunders Collection, exhibition catalogue, A.K. Wheelock Jr. (ed.), New York 2021, pp. 156-159, 179, cat. no. 38, reproduced.
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. 38.
ENGRAVED
Friedrich-Johann Wolff, Paris, before 1795.
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