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Alexandre-François Desportes

Oystercatcher

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June 10, 01:20 PM GMT

Estimate

6,000 - 8,000 EUR

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Description

Alexandre-François Desportes

Champigneulle 1661 - 1743 Paris

Oystercatcher

Oil on paper laid on panel, unframed

32 x 43,9 cm ; 12⅝ by 17¼ in.

Acquired from Marc Blondeau, in 1999;

Succession Arnaud de Talancé de la Barre;

Anonymous sale, Rouillac, Vendôme, 19 June 2022, lot 5;

Where acquired by the present owner.

G. de Lastic and P. Jacky, Desportes, Catalogue raisonné, Saint-Rémy-en-l'Eau 2010, p. 11, no. P 17.

Famous for his animal paintings, Desportes created his large compositions with the help of studies he painted in oil on paper. This is the case for the present Eurasian oystercatcher, which had already been the subject of a drawing in pierre noire and sepia wash on paper (Manufacture Nationale de Sèvres, inv. P II no. 15). Desportes had produced this drawing in his youth after a work by Nicasius Bernaerts, executed for the pavilion of the Menagerie at Versailles and now in the Château-Musée de Gien.

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