The east side of the Château de Montmusard, Dijon, seen from the gardens

Name: JEAN-BAPTISTE LALLEMAND (DIJON 1716-1803 PARIS)
Brand: The east side of the Château de Montmusard, Dijon, seen from the gardens
Price: 55000.00 GBP
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Price Realised GBP 68,750

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Closed: 9 Jul 2021

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JEAN-BAPTISTE LALLEMAND (DIJON 1716-1803 PARIS)

The east side of the Château de Montmusard, Dijon, seen from the gardens

Price Realised GBP 68,750

Closed: 9 Jul 2021

Price Realised GBP 68,750

Closed: 9 Jul 2021

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JEAN-BAPTISTE LALLEMAND (DIJON 1716-1803 PARIS)
The east side of the Château de Montmusard, Dijon, seen from the gardens
signed 'Lalmand f' (lower left)
oil on canvas
35 x 46 in. (88.9 x 116.9 cm.)

Commissioned from the artist by Jean-Philippe Fyot de la Marche (1723-1772), Premier président du Parlement de Bourgogne, as a gift for the following,
L'abbé Fabarel, member of the Academie de Dijon.
Louis de la Loge; his sale (†), M. Guiot, Dijon, 4 April 1872, lot 196, 4,000FF to the following,
Edme Tagini (1827-1903).
Captain Bertram Currie, Dingley Hall, Market Harborough; his sale, Christie's, London, 27 March 1953, lot 52, to the following,
with W. Sabin, London.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 10 July 1987, lot 151.

H. Chabeuf, 'Un peintre dijonnais: J.-B.Lallemand 1716-1803?', La Revue de Bourgogne, I, 1911, p. 267.
E. Fyot, 'Montmusard', Mémoires de la Commission des Antiquités de la Côte-d'or, XVIII, 1925, pp. 238-239.
M.D., 'Intermédiaire: Réponse', La Revue de Bourgogne, 1913, p. 295.
P. Quarré and M. Geiger, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Dijon: Catalogue des peintures françaises, Dijon, 1968, p. 60, under no. 255.
Y. Beauvalot, 'À propos de documents inédits, la construction du château de Montmusard à Dijon', Bulletin de la Société de l'Histoire de l'Art français, 1985, illustrated.

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Lot Essay

The Château de Montmusard, considered a masterpiece of the Greek style in France, was built in 1765 for Claude-Philippe Fyot, marquis de La Marche (1694-1768), who served as First President for the Parliament of Burgundy, and commissioned from the Parisian architect Charles de Wailly (1730-1798). Its original plan, which juxtaposes two circular salons, one covered with a vault, the other surrounded by an open peristyle, earned de Wailly a certain fame and he subsequently presented variants to Catherine II of Russia and Frederick II, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel, but neither project was ultimately realised. When the marquis died in 1768, the project was taken up by his son, Jean-Philippe Fyot (1723-1772), but the maintenance of the château proved to be too costly and resulted in it being largely demolished at the end of the 18th century. The pendant, which was offered with the present picture in the 1953 Christie’s sale, and shows the east side of the château with Dijon beyond, is now in the Musée des Beaux Arts de Dijon, along with a watercolour drawing by Lallemand of the same view (inv. no. 1987-3-D).