Description
18th century FRENCH school History of Esther, after Jean-François de Troy Black stone. 38 x 28 cm Provenance: former Goncourt collection; their sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 17 February 1897, no. 324, as Jean- François de Troy. Collection mark lower right (L and P crossed); Paris, Hôtel Drouot sale, March 18, 1987, n°105, as attributed to Jean-François de Troy; Paris, Hôtel Drouot sale, November 10, 1988, n°207 Bibliography: E. Launay, Les frères Goncourt collectionneurs de dessins, Paris 1991, éd. Arthéna, n°350, p. 486, repr. C. Leribault, Jean-François de Troy 1679-1752, Paris, 2002, ed. Arthéna, p.376, under n° P. 285, repr. Although contemporary with the realization of the lost painting of Jean-François de Troy, this drawing, which has "for him the fatness of the draughtsman" (Goncourt), is nowadays rejected from the drawn corpus of the painter. A comparison with the artist's other drawings shows that the hand is different.
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18th century FRENCH school History of Esther, after Jean-François de Troy Black stone. 38 x 28 cm Provenance: former Goncourt collection; their sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 17 February 1897, no. 324, as Jean- François de Troy. Collection mark lower right (L and P crossed); Paris, Hôtel Drouot sale, March 18, 1987, n°105, as attributed to Jean-François de Troy; Paris, Hôtel Drouot sale, November 10, 1988, n°207 Bibliography: E. Launay, Les frères Goncourt collectionneurs de dessins, Paris 1991, éd. Arthéna, n°350, p. 486, repr. C. Leribault, Jean-François de Troy 1679-1752, Paris, 2002, ed. Arthéna, p.376, under n° P. 285, repr. Although contemporary with the realization of the lost painting of Jean-François de Troy, this drawing, which has "for him the fatness of the draughtsman" (Goncourt), is nowadays rejected from the drawn corpus of the painter. A comparison with the artist's other drawings shows that the hand is different.
