Young Woman Holding a Love Letter
Auction Closed
May 21, 02:59 PM GMT
Estimate
80,000 - 120,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Jean-Baptiste Santerre
Magny-en-Vexin 1651 - 1717 Paris
Young Woman Holding a Love Letter
oil on canvas
canvas: 35 ⅞ by 29 in.; 91.1 by 73.7 cm
framed: 44 ½ by 37 ⅝ in.; 113.0 by 95.6 cm
Possibly acquired by Jean Robert Tronchin (1710-1793), Geneva, in the 18th century (as La femme au billet doux);
Claude Réné César (1761-1849), Count of Courtarvel-Pézé (as Mignard, Portrait of Madame Anne Mansart; according to an inscribed armorial print affixed to the canvas’s verso);
Thence by descent and inheritance until anonymously sold, Paris, Sotheby's, 23 June 2004, lot 11;
Where acquired by Jordan and Thomas A. Saunders III.
Probably A. Potiquet, Jean Baptiste Santerre, Peintre, Sa vie et son oeuvre, Paris 1876, p. 10 (as Une femme assise, en toilette de bal, tenant une lettre de la main droite);
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. 102-105, 173-174, cat. no. 23, reproduced.
ENGRAVED
Nicolas Chateau, 1708.
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. 23.
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