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  • Thomas Bluget De Valdenuit
    Nov. 08, 2023

    Thomas Bluget De Valdenuit

    Est: $1,000 - $2,000

    Thomas Bluget De Valdenuit French, 1763-1846 Mr. Coddington, 1797 Signed Valdenuit and dated 1797 (ll) Pencil, charcoal, and white chalk on pink prepared paper 18 1/2 x 13 5/8 inches Provenance: Descended in the family of the sitter, Woodbridge, New Jersey Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Schwartz Pook & Pook, Inc., Downington, PA,May 12, 2022, lot 1594 Private collection, New York Literature: Ellen G. Miles, Saint-Memin and the Neoclassical Profile Portrait in America, 1994, p. 275, cat. no. 185, illus. p.97 A few scattered restorations, including a 2 inch repaired tear at the center right edge.

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  • Thomas Bludget de Valdenuit American/French, 1763-1846 Portrait of a Young Man, Believed to be Benjamin Woolsey Rogers,...
    Apr. 18, 2018

    Thomas Bludget de Valdenuit American/French, 1763-1846 Portrait of a Young Man, Believed to be Benjamin Woolsey Rogers,...

    Est: $1,200 - $1,800

    Thomas Bludget de Valdenuit American/French, 1763-1846 Portrait of a Young Man, Believed to be Benjamin Woolsey Rogers, in Profile Signed Vald, dated 1797 (ll), inscribed illegibly (ur), and dated 1797 on the reverse Chalk on pink prepared paper 19 x 14 inches Born in France, Thomas Bludget de Valdenuit came to America in the aftermath of the French Revolution, joining forces with his fellow countryman, Charles Balthazar Julien Fevret de Saint-Memin to create profile portraits with a physiognotrace. Invented in France in 1783-84, the device was designed to mechanically trace a sitter''s portrait in profile. The partners offered a package deal: a silhouette portrait executed in black chalk on pink toned paper, a small engraved metal plate, and a dozen engravings. In their partnership, Valdenuit drew the initial likeness, and Saint-Memin produced the plate and prints. The business arrangement ended in September 1797 when Valdenuit returned to France. The present work is believed to depict Benjamin Woolsey Rogers (1765-1859), part of a prosperous New York family that made a substantial fortune from the importation of hardware. Rogers himself served as a governor of New York Hospital and was a founder of the Bloomingdale Asylum for the Insane. An engraving of Rogers by Saint-Memin dated 1796 may possibly relate to the present work.

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  • ATTRIBUTED TO THOMAS BLUDGET DE VALDENUIT (1763-1846): PORTRAIT OF A LADY
    Apr. 30, 2016

    ATTRIBUTED TO THOMAS BLUDGET DE VALDENUIT (1763-1846): PORTRAIT OF A LADY

    Est: $800 - $1,200

    ATTRIBUTED TO THOMAS BLUDGET DE VALDENUIT (1763-1846): PORTRAIT OF A LADY Chalk on paper, c. 1795, unsigned. 19 x 14 in., 24 x 19 in. (frame). Exhibited: The Montreal Museum of Fine Art, The Painter and the New World, June 8- July 30, 1967, Illustration number 152. Provenance: Sold Christie's, New York, January 15, 1992, Lot 186; Victor D. Spark; Sold Christie's, New York, January 12, 1995, Lot 324. Property from the Estate of Paula Peyraud

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