A Louis-Philippe gilt and patinated bronze mounted Asian ebony venereed, reverse glass paintings and verre églmisé circular table, circa 1840, the paintings by Antoine-Patrice Guyot (1777-1845)
Estimate
40,000 - 60,000 EUR
Lot Details
Description
the top decorated with a central medalion and eight scenes featuring mountains landscapes of the Grande Chartreuse, close to Grenoble in medallions and with a laurel frieze, the plaque signed and dated AP GUYOT 1830, the border applied with palms and rosaces, with a stem adorned with acanthus leaves, on a triangular base, on casters
Haut. 78 cm, diam. 112 cm, height. 30 ¾ in, diam. 44 in
Sotheby's Monaco, 24 June 2000, lot 238
-Salon de peinture et de sculpture, Paris, 1831, n° 1028.
-L’Impératrice Eugénie et son temps, hôtel du Palais, Biarritz, 11 août-15 septembre 1963, n°177.
Explication des ouvrages de peintures, sculptures, lithographies et architectures des artistes vivants exposés au musée royal, le 1er mars 1831, quoted p.81.
Antoine-Patrice Guyot (1777-1845)
Specializing in landscape painting, Guyot was a student of Jean-Victor Bertin (1767-1842), one of the masters of Neoclassical historical landscape painting. He exhibited his works at the Paris Salons between 1806 and 1842, notably mountain landscapes and, more specifically, views of the Alps. In 1812, he presented Etude d'un pavillon de la Grande Chartreuse, près de Grenoble, as well as a frame of drawings representing Vues de la Chartreuse.
On our table, he depicts nine views of the Grande Chartreuse monastery and its dependencies with monks. This monastery is the mother house of the Carthusian order of hermit monks, located in Isère at the foot of the Grand Som, the fourth highest peak in the Chartreuse massif, established as early as the 11th century.
The buildings depicted date from the 17th century and include numerous annexes. During the Empire, the monastery no longer housed monks, as the order had been abolished during the Revolution, but with the Restoration, the monks returned there, thanks to a royal decree by Louis XVIII after 1816.
A place of prayer, the monks lived away from towns and cities, but the Grande Chartreuse is set in magnificent surroundings, conducive to contemplation, and was protected as a reserve by imperial decree in 1857.