Gilles-Paul Cauvet

Lot 79: Gilles-Paul Cauvet (Aix-en-Provence 1731-1788 Paris)

Name: Gilles-Paul Cauvet (Aix-en-Provence 1731-1788 Paris)
Brand: Christie's
SKU: if24uwsife

Est: $10,000 USD - $15,000 USDSold:

Christie'sNew York, NY, USJanuary 25, 2007

Item Overview

Description

A nymph balancing a vase of fruit and flowers on her head flanked by vines and swags of flowers; and Venus and Cupid standing on a globe and flanked with garlands: Designs for boiseries
red chalk
18 5/8 x 7 3/8 in. (473 x 188 mm.) and 18 1/2 x 7 7/8 in. (470 x 199 mm.)

Artist or Maker

Gilles-Paul Cauvet

Provenance

Martine Marie Pol, Comtesse de Béhague (1870-1939).

Notes

By Mlle. Liotter L'Ainée for Cauvet's Receuil d'Ornaments à l'usage des jeunes artistes qui se destinent à la décorations des bâtiments, Paris, 1777.

Another design from the same series, also from the collection of the Comtesse de Béhague, is in the Pierpont Morgan Library, New York (inv. no. 1997.84)

Auction Details

Old Master Drawings

Christie's

January 25, 2007, 12:00 AM EST

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

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