Lot 122: Louis de Silvestre II (Sceaux or Paris 1675-1760 Paris)

Ulysses discovering Astynax in his father's tomb
oil on canvas, unframed
69 1/2 x 60 1/2 in. (176.5 x 154 cm.)

Theodor Frimmel, Galerie Joseph von Novak in Prag beschreibendes Verzeichnis von Dr. Theodor Frimmel als Manuscript gedruckt, Prague, 1899, p. 49, Nr. 80.
Roger-Armand Weigert, Documents inidits sur Louis de Silvestre (1675-1760) suivis du catalogue de son uvre, Archives de l'Art Français, XVII, 1932, p. 3-128, Nr. 95.
Antoine Schnapper, Louis de Silvestre, tableaux de jeunesse, La Revue du Louvre et des Musies de France, 1973, Nr. 1, p. 21-26, (with a preparatory drawing for the Farewell between Hector and Andromaque is reproduced, nr. 12).
Xavier Salmon, exhibition catalogue, Louis de Silvestre, un peintre français á la Cour de Dresde Versailles, 1997, p.18, fig. 2.

Painted for the Cardinal de Rohan in 1708, together with its companion piece The Farewell between Hector and Andromaque (untracked since 1932).
Rohan family, Palace of Sychrow (Bohemia) after 1790, from where sold to the painter and dealer K. Juvarek, by whom sold to Joseph von Novak, 1880.
Collection A. M. Jindrick Belohribek, Prague, in 1932.

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