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Lot 58TP

Attributed to Alexandre François Desportes
(Champigneulle 1661-1743 Paris)
and Studio
A pointer beside a pheasant in a landscape

5 July 2017, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

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Attributed to Alexandre François Desportes (Champigneulle 1661-1743 Paris), and Studio

A pointer beside a pheasant in a landscape
bears signature and date: 'J.B.Oudry.f.1738' (lower right)
oil on canvas
112.5 x 154cm (44 5/16 x 60 5/8in).

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Provenance
Acquired by John Duff (1772-1836) and thence by descent to the present owners, the Gordon-Duff family

Exhibited
Duff House, Banff, Aberdeenshire from 1995- November 2016

Desportes created the original composition for this work in 1719 (oil on canvas, 130 x 162 cm, Ermenonville, Abbaye de Chaalis, inv. no. 256) and repeated it more than once with certain differences in the following decade, one version dated 1727. It has been suggested that some parts of these paintings were painted by his studio. The monograph by Pierre Jacky and G. de Lastic lists three known versions (p.622, p.722 and p.722 bis) as well as three known studio copies (Desportes, Saint-Rémy-en-l'Eau, 2010).

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