Art du XVIIIème siècle / 18th century art

Red stoneware teapot with silver mounts, Ary de Milde, Delft, c. 1700. New Acquisition of The Art Institute of Chicago. 

Maurice Quentin de La Tour, Portrait de la présidente de Rieux en habit de bal tenant un masque, 1742 © CC0 Paris Musées / Musée Cognacq-Jay PARIS - Siècle d’or du pastel, le XVIIIe voit s’épanouir la virtuosité de dessinateurs tels que Maurice Quentin de La Tour, le « prince des pastellistes », et son rival talentueux Jean-Baptiste Perronneau. Ils sont à l’honneur dans la collection Cognacq-Jay, avec des portraits qui comptent parmi leurs chefs-d’oeuvre, comme celui de Madame la présidente de Rieux,... [Lire la suite]

Giovanni Antonio Canaletto (1697 – 1768), Piazza San Giacomo di Rialto, 1760 – 69, graphite, pen and brown ink and grey wash on laid paper, with brown ink framing lines, executed using a ruler and compass; the lower edge with inscriptions added on a separate strip of the (seemingly same) paper and joined on the verso. The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust). LONDON - This display will present an outstanding group of around twenty Venetian drawings from The Courtauld’s collection. They evoke the energy and creativity of... [Lire la suite]

Giovanni Antonio Canal, Canaletto (1697-1768), Venice: The Mouth of the Grand Canal from the East, circa 1734. Oil on canvas, 18.1/2 by 30.7/8 in. (47 x 78.4 cm.). Estimate: £8,000,000-12,000,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2023. Giovanni Antonio Canal, Canaletto (1697-1768), The Molo, with the Piazzetta and the Doge’s Palace, from the Bacino, circa 1734. Oil on canvas. 18.1/2 x 30.5/8 in. (47.1 x 77.7 cm.); Estimate: £8,000,000-12,000,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2023. LONDON.- A pair of unpublished Venetian... [Lire la suite]

Giambattista Nolli (Como 1701–1756 Rome), La Nuova Pianta di Roma, 1748, etching, second state, 1912 x 2190 mm. Courtesy Nicholas Hall Gallery. NEW YORK, NY.- Today, Nicholas Hall opens Hub of the World: Art in 18th Century Rome, organized in association with the Milanese Galleria Carlo Orsi. Presented at the Upper East Side gallery in New York, the exhibition celebrates the legacy of esteemed American scholar, connoisseur, and artist Anthony M. Clark (1923–1976), whose centenary falls... [Lire la suite]

Katherine Read, Scottish, 1723–1779, Portrait of a Woman, c. 1765, Pastel on paper, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Ross, Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg. ST. PETERSBURG, FL.- The Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, has announced the reattribution of a key work in the collection. In 1969 the MFA was gifted an exceptional pastel portrait long believed to be by noted British painter Francis Cotes. The sitter, an elegant woman in a fur-trimmed coat, was identified as the artist’s wife, whom he married in 1765. This... [Lire la suite]

Unknown British artist, Portrait of Axel von Fersen, 1778. Photo: Stockholms Auktionsverk STOCKHOLM.- Nationalmuseum has acquired a portrait of Axel von Fersen at the age of 23, painted in London in the summer of 1778. The superb miniature by an unknown British artist depicts a self-assured young man, perhaps on account of his intended marriage to a rich heiress. It was unusual for British artists to paint portraits of Swedish subjects in the latter half of the 18th century.Axel von Fersen (1755–1810) has become known... [Lire la suite]

Louis-Jean Desprez, Tomb with Death Standing, c. 1779/1784. Etching and aquatint on laid paper. Sheet: 15 3/4 x 21 3/8 in. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Ruth and Jacob Kainen Memorial Acquisition Fund 2022.158.1. WASHINGTON, DC.- Louis-Jean Desprez (1743–1804) was one of the most imaginative and inventive artists working in late 18th-century Europe. The National Gallery of Art has acquired Tomb with Death Standing (1779/1784), one of four aquatinted tombs that Desprez made following his travels in southern... [Lire la suite]

Rosalba Carriera (Venetian, 1675–1757), Portrait of a Gentleman, c. 1730. Pastel on paper, laid down on canvas. 23.6 by 18.3 inches. Charles H. Schwartz Endowment Fund, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art. HARTFORD, CONN.- The Wadsworth Atheneum has acquired an outstanding work by Rosalba Carriera (also known as ‘Rosalba’) the most famous woman artist working in the eighteenth century and admired as a pioneering and brilliant pastellist. Portrait of a Gentleman (c. 1730), was created when she reached the height of her... [Lire la suite]

Lot 42. Anne Vallayer-Coster, Nature morte au vase d’albâtre rempli de fleurs avec sur une table plusieurs espèces de fruits, comme ananas, pêches et raisins, signé et daté 'M Ver. Coster. 1783.' (en bas, à droite, sur la plaque de marbre),huile sur toile, sur sa toile d'origine, 108,5 x 89,5 cm. (42 3/4 x 35 1/4 in.) dans un cadre en bois sculpté doré estampillé 'E. L. INFROIT', avec la Jurande des Menuisiers Ébénistes, probablement dans son cadre d'origine, avec des modifications apportées dans la... [Lire la suite]