Lot 109
Lot 109
LOUIS DE BOULLOGNE LE JEUNE (PARIS 1654-1733)

Étude pour le dieu fleuve

Price Realised EUR 4,032
Estimate
EUR 6,000 - EUR 8,000
Closed: 22 Nov 2024
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LOUIS DE BOULLOGNE LE JEUNE (PARIS 1654-1733)

Étude pour le dieu fleuve

Price Realised EUR 4,032
Closed: 22 Nov 2024
Price Realised EUR 4,032
Closed: 22 Nov 2024
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LOUIS DE BOULLOGNE LE JEUNE (PARIS 1654-1733)
Étude pour le dieu fleuve
monogrammé 'LB' (en bas à gauche)
pierre noire, craie blanche, sur papier gris
38,4 x 49,7 cm (1518 x 1958 in.)
Provenance
Vente Sotheby’s, Londres, 6 novembre 1981, lot 49.
Galerie Paul Prouté, Paris, 2019.
Vente Hôtel Lambert (III), Sotheby’s, Paris, 13 octobre 2022, lot 666.
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LOUIS DE BOULLOGNE THE YOUNGER, STUDY OF RIVER GOD, BLACK AND WHITE CHALK ON GREY PAPER, MONOGRAMED

Part of Louis de Boullogne's repertoire of models, this figure of the River God can be linked to two of the artist's paintings. The man lying on the ground holding an oar appears to be a spectator in the Judgement of Paris in the musée de Beaux-Arts de Dijon (inv. DE 17; M.-C. Villanueva-Puig, S. Kersper, Mythes et Légendes en Occident : Collection du musée du Louvre, cat. exp., Taiwan, musée National du Palais, 2012, no. 70, ill.). The same model is used in the Deification of Aeneas, a painting dated 1696 (Christie's Paris, 22 June 2005, lot 84). Another preparatory drawing for the overall composition of the latter is in the musée du Louvre, where the artist depicts the river figure more loosely, but in the same position as the present study (Deification of Aeneas: Venus brings nectar and ambrosia, musée du Louvre, inv. 24963; H. Guicharnaud, Louis de Boullogne, exhib. cat., Paris, musée du Louvre, 2011, no. 9).
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