Jean Valette-Falgores, called Penot
Trompe-l'Oeil of a Letter Board with a Venus Shell, a Print by Antonio Tempesta, Spectacles, a Quill, Penknife, Sealing Wax, a Letter to M. de Villeneuve at Paris, a Copy of Nostradamus and Cut Pieces of a Queen of Hearts
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May 21, 02:59 PM GMT
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80,000 - 120,000 USD
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Jean Valette-Falgores, called Penot
Montauban 1710 - 1777
Trompe-l'Oeil of a Letter Board with a Venus Shell, a Print by Antonio Tempesta, Spectacles, a Quill, Penknife, Sealing Wax, a Letter to M. de Villeneuve at Paris, a Copy of Nostradamus and Cut Pieces of a Queen of Hearts
oil on canvas
canvas: 18 ⅛ by 14 ⅞ in.; 46.0 by 37.8 cm
framed: 25 ⅛ by 22 ⅛ in.; 63.8 by 56.2 cm
Roberto Polo (b. 1951), New York;
By whom sold ("Property from a Collection formed by Roberto Polo sold at the Direction of the Internal Revenue Service"), New York, Sotheby's, 11 January 1990, lot 95;
Where acquired by a private collector, London;
By whom anonymously sold, New York, Sotheby's, 21 May 1998, lot 124;
Where acquired by Jordan and Thomas A. Saunders III.
M. Harrington, 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. 99-101, 173, cat. no. 22, 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. 22.
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