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Nicolas Antoine Taunay(Paris 1755-1830)A view of the Ile de France; and the Rest on the Hunt in fine Louis XVI carved frames (2)
4 December 2019, 15:00 GMT
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Nicolas Antoine Taunay (Paris 1755-1830)
A view of the Ile de France; and the Rest on the Hunt
a pair, oil on canvas
34.3 x 40.6cm (13 1/2 x 16in).
in fine Louis XVI carved frames (2)
a pair, oil on canvas
34.3 x 40.6cm (13 1/2 x 16in).
in fine Louis XVI carved frames (2)
Footnotes
Previously attributed to Louis Gabriel Moreau the Elder the present pair of landscapes has been identified in a letter by Claudine Lebrun Jouve, dated 10 July 2008 as being solely by Nicolas Antoine Taunay (the gouaches by Moreau were often collaborations in which Moreau was responsible for the landscape and Taunay for the staffage). She compares these works to the Vue de la face Nord du château de Madrid à Neuilly and the pair of gouaches depicting Intérieur d'un parc et Baigneurs à l'orée d'un bois, which had also been attributed to Moreau (see C. Lebrun Jouve, Nicolas-Antoine Taunay, 1755-1830, Paris, 2003, P.45 and PP. 18 and 19). Claudine Lebrun Jouve further compares the Rest on the Hunt to a hunting scene at Waddesdon Manor and to the works by the artist in the Youssoupov Collection (op. cit. p. 23 and p. 22). She dates this pair of paintings to the years 1775-1784 when Taunay departed for Rome, where he rejoined Jacques-Louis David.
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