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Lot 184: Bénigne Gagneraux (Dijon 1756-1795 Florence)

Est: $70,000 USD - $100,000 USDSold:
Christie'sNew York, NY, USJanuary 26, 2011

Item Overview

Description

Bénigne Gagneraux (Dijon 1756-1795 Florence)
The Education of Achilles
signed and dated 'B. Gagneraux fecit 1785' (lower left)
oil on canvas
38 3/8 x 49 3/8 in. (97.6 x 125.4 cm.)

Artist or Maker

Literature

'Per il Casaletti', Giornale delle Belle Arti e della incisione, antiquario, musica e poesia per l'anno, II, Rome, 17 December 1785, p. 384.
Memorie per le Belle Arti, Rome, 17 December 1785, pp. CXC-XCXI.
J.D. Fiorillo, Geschichte der Mahlere, Geschichte des Künste und Wissenschaften, Göttingen, 1805, p. 511.
H. Baudot, Éloge historique de Bénigne Gagneraux peintre d'histoire de S.M. le Roi de Suède. Membre de l'Académie de' Forti, à Rome. Membre et professeur de Beaux-Arts à Florence, Dijon, 1889, p. 40, no. 4.
L. Vicchi, Les Français pendant la Convention 1792-1795, Rome, Paris and London, 1893, p. 146.
B. Sandström, Bénigne Gagneraux 1756-1795, éducation, inspiration, oeuvre, Stockholm, 1981, pp. 128-9, no. 5a, reproduced fig. 22a.
S. Laveissière, Bénigne Gagneraux (1756-1795) un peintre bourguignon dans la Rome néo-classique, Rome and Dijon 1983, pp. 104-05.

Provenance

Cardinal de Bernis collection, 1785 until his death.
Anonymous sale; Versailles, Palais des Congrès Maître Paul Martin, 30 April 1972, lot 117.
Anonymous sale; Paris, Tajan, Hôtel George V, 25 June 1996, lot 58.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 14 December 2000, lot 84.

Notes

PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTOR


Auction Details

Old Master & 19th Century Paintings, Drawings & Watercolors Part II

by
Christie's
January 26, 2011, 12:00 AM EST

20 Rockefeller Plaza, New York, NY, 10020, US