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Lot 77: JACQUES DE LAJOUE

Est: $20,000 USD - $30,000 USDSold:
Sotheby'sNew York, NY, USJune 06, 2013

Item Overview

Description

PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF MRS. LAWRENCE COPLEY THAW PARIS 1686-1761 GARDEN VIEW WITH FOUNTAINS signed lower left: LAOUE oil on canvas 17 7/8 by 21 5/8 in.; 45.4 by 55 cm.

Literature

M. Roland Michel, Lajoüe et l'art rocaille, Neuilly-sur-Seine 1984, pp. 217-18, cat. no. P. 169, fig. 148.

Provenance

With Gallery Heim, Paris, 1960.

Notes

The general design of the present composition, which features a fountain bordered by corinthian columns, and a tall winding tree expanding from the fountain at right, is repeated in a drawing by Lajoue located in a Parisian private collection.1 1. see literature, Michel 1984, cat. no. D. 218.

Auction Details

Old Master Paintings

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Sotheby's
June 06, 2013, 12:00 AM EST

1334 York Avenue, New York, NY, 10021, US