Lot 256: Léonard Defrance (Liège 1735-1805)

Brigands dividing booty
signed 'L Defrance. de Liege.' (lower center, on the chest)
oil on panel, unframed
18 7/8 x 29 1/8 in. (47.9 x 74 cm.)

M.N. Benisovich, 'Belgian Painters of the XVIII Century in The Metropolitan Museum of Art', in Art in America, 35, July 1947, pp. 211, 213, fig. 3.
M.N. Benisovich, 'Les peintres du XVIIIe siècle en Belgique au Metropolitan Museum de New York', in Revue belge d'archéologie et d'histoire de l'art, 22, nos. 3-4, 1953, pp. 192-3, fig. 3.
J. Philippe, 'Léonard Defrance et les gravures exécutées d'après ses oeuvres', in Chronique Archéologique de Pays de Liège, 53, 1962, pp. 101-5, illustrated.
W.A. Liedtke, Flemish paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1984, I, pp. 40-1, II, pl. 20.
F. Dehousse, M. Pacco & M. Pauchen, Léonard Defrance: l'oeuvre peint, Liège, 1985, pp. 25, 134-6, no. 196, illustrated.
J. Hendrick, La peinture de pays de Liège: XVIe, XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles, Liège, 1987, pp. 246-7, fig. 239.

Baron de Heusch, Château de l'Andweck, Belgium; Étienne le Roy and Victor le Roy, Brussels, 9-10 May 1870, lot 67.
Count Cornet de Ways Ruart, Brussels, by 1870.
William T. Blodgett, Paris, and John Taylor Johnston, New York, 1870-1, by whom sold to
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

Property from THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART, New York

Tax exempt