Lot 105: LAURENT DELVAUX (1696-1778) SOUTHERN NETHERLANDISH, CIRCA 1776 | Caritas romana (Roman Charity)

Name: LAURENT DELVAUX (1696-1778) SOUTHERN NETHERLANDISH, CIRCA 1776 | Caritas romana (Roman Charity)
Brand: Sotheby's
SKU: c9049fe950
Price: 40000 GBP

Est: £50,000 GBP - £70,000 GBPSold:

Sotheby'sLondon, United KingdomDecember 06, 2016

Item Overview

Description

white marble, on a wood base

Dimensions

marble: 76cm., 29 7/8 in.

Artist or Maker

Laurent Delvaux

Medium

white marble, on a wood base

Literature

F-V. Goethals, Histoire des lettres, des sciences et des arts en Belgique et dans les pays limitrophes, Brussels, 1840, p. 403;
Journal des Beaux-Arts et de la Littérature, 10th year, 1868, pp. 51-52;
E. De Busscher, 'Laurent Delvaux, sculpteur statuaire', Annales de la Société royale des Beaux-Arts et de Littérature de Gand, vol. XIII, 1873-1877, pp. 419-420;
E. De Busscher, 'Delvaux (Laurent)', Biographie Nationale, vol V, Brussels, 1876, , col. 502;
E. Marchal, 'Mémoire sur la sculpture aux Pays-Bas pendant les XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles, précédé d'un résumé historique,' Mémoires de l'Académie royale de Belgique, Classe des Beaux-Arts, vol. XLI, Bruxelles, 1877, p. 103;
E. Fiévet, Notice sur la vie et les ouvrages du sculpteur Laurent Delaux, Nivelles, 1878, pp. 14, 17;
E. Fiévet, 'Catalogue des oeuvres de Laurent Delvaux', Annales de la Société archéologique de l'Arrondissement de Nivelles, vol. I, 1879, p. 109 (as Pietà);
E. Fiévet, Notice sur la vie et les ouvrages du statuaire Laurent Delaux, 1880, pp. 28, 32 (as Pietà);
E. Marchal, La Sculpture et des Chefs-d'oeuvre de l'Orfèvrerie belges, Brussels, 1895, col. 523;
G. Willame, Laurent Delvaux, 1696-1778, Bruxelles-Paris, 1914, p. 56;
J-L. Delattre and R. Laurent, Laurent Delvaux 1696-1778: Exposition commémorant le bicentenaire de sa mort, Collégiale Sainte-Gertrude, Nivelles, September, 1978, p. 32, n. 5;
R. Van Peteghem, Liste des Principaux ouvrages de Laurent Delvaux,' Rif Tout Dju, no. 218, May 1978, Nivelles, p. 18;
R. Van Peteghem, 'Notes manuscrites originales servant à la biographie de Laurent Delvaux, Rif Tout Dju, no. 219, June 1978, Nivelles, p. 8, n. 4;
A. Jacobs, Laurent Delvaux: Gand, 1696-Nivelles, 1778, Paris, 1999, pp. 483-485, no. SM 14 (including a list of further archival references to the present marble)

Provenance

Laurent Delvaux (1696-1778);
by descent to Jean-Godefroid Delvaux, 2 March 1778;
by descent to his heirs;
sale, Brussels, 5 May 1868 'pour sortir d'indivision';
there acquired by Jean-François Stein, 16 rue Montoyer, Brussels;
described by Selon Fiévet, 1878-1880, as being in a German collection;
private collection, Italy

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Auction Details

Old Master Sculpture and Works of Art Including Highlights from the Reinhold Hofstätter Collection

Sotheby's

December 06, 2016, 10:30 AM GMT

34-35 New Bond Street, London, LDN, W1A 2AA, UK

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