Lot 64: JEAN-BERNARD  RESTOUT

PROPERTY  FROM  A  PRIVATE  COLLECTION
PARIS  1732  -  1797
THE  PLEASURES  OF  ANACREON
oil  on  canvas
77  1/4    by  98  1/2    in.;  196.3  by  250.2  cm.

Paris, Salon,1765 (not included in the Livret);
Paris, Salon, 1767, no. 149;
Paris, Salon, 1791, no. 250.

F. Dowley, "Anacreon and Le Prince," The Register of the Museum of Art, The University of Kansas at Lawrence, t. II, no. 6, June 1961, p. 16-17 and p. 23, notes 47, 48 and 50;
S. Sawicka, "Un dessin de Jean-Bernard Restout pour une peinture disparue," Gazette des Beaux-Arts, VIème per. (LXXII), 1968, p. 191-94;
M. Sandoz, "'Les plaisirs d'Anacreon' de Jean-Bernard Restout," Bulletin du Musée National de Varsovie, no. 1 (1970), p. 23-28;
J. Adhémar and J. Seznec, eds.,Diderot Salons, Vol. II, 1765, 2nd edition, Oxford 1979, pp. 204-5;
J. Adhémar and J. Seznec, eds.,Diderot Salons, Vol. III, 1767, 2nd edition, Oxford 1983, pp. 284-85;
E.M. Bukdahl and A. Lorenceau, Diderot, Salon de 1765, Paris 1984, pp. 271-75;
Didier Aaaron, Catalogue, Paris, London, New York, 1994/95, cat. no. 10, reproduced;
C.E. Foster, "Jean-Bernard Restout's 'Sleep--Figure Study': Painting and Drawing from Life at the French Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture," in Cleveland Studies in the History of Art, Vol. 3, 1998, pp. 51-53, reproduced (detail) fig. 10;
C. Gouzi, Jean Restout 1692-1768, peintre d'histoire à Paris, Paris 2000, p. 169

Probably remained in the artist's possession until his death;
With Didier Aaron, Paris, 1994-95.