Claude Arnulphy
Portrait of Jean-Baptiste Boyer de Fonscolombe
Auction Closed
January 31, 03:58 PM GMT
Estimate
40,000 - 60,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Claude Arnulphy
Lyon 1697 - 1786 Aix-en-Provence
Portrait of Jean-Baptiste Boyer de Fonscolombe
signed and dated on verso: Arnulphy Pinzit. 1740
inscribed on sheet of paper center left: [upside down: D B C A] / S G N
oil on canvas, unlined
canvas: 25 ⅛ by 21 ⅞ in; 63.8 by 55.6 cm.
framed: 32 ⅝ by 29 ⅝ in.; 82.9 by 75.2 cm.
Probably Irène Boyer de Fonscolombe (1799-1879), Hôtel Boyer de Fonscolombe, Aix-en-Provence;
Probably thence by descent to her son, Louis Charles Joseph Gaston de Saporta (1823-1895), Marquis de Saporta, Hôtel Boyer de Fonscolombe, Aix-en-Provence, by 1890;
Private collection, France;
With Galerie Éric Turquin, Paris;
From whom acquired by the present collector, 2008.
A.M. de La Tour-Keyrié, ed., Curiosités particulières de la ville d'Aix, Aix-en-Provence 1890, p. 141.
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