Lot 100
100
Jean-Frdric Schall* (1752-1825)
Jean-Frdric Schall* (1752-1825)

'Mademoiselle de La Vallire au couvent de Chaillot'

Details
Jean-Frdric Schall* (1752-1825)
Schall, J.-F.
'Mademoiselle de La Vallire au couvent de Chaillot'
oil on canvas
13 x 18in. (34.5 x 47.5cm.)
Provenance
M. Basset; his sale, Durand-Ruel, Paris, May 9, 1874, lot 36.
Literature
A. Girodie, Un peintre de ftes galantes, Jean-Frdric Schall, 1927, pp. 34-5 and 63.
Engraved
Ruotte and by Prud'hon's son and edited by Basset with the following description:
'Mademoiselle de La Vallire avait confi son amour pour Louis XIV Madame de Thomine, et cette vertueuse dame lui ayant conseill de quitter la Cour, les deux amies s'taient rfugies au couvent de Chaillot; peine y arrivaient-elles que le Roi parat. Mademoiselle de La Vallire se trouble, ses bras s'amolissent et se dtachent de la croix. Le Roi saisit cet instant, il la soulve et l'entrane Versailles'.

Lot Essay

The painting is one of six made by Schall in preparation for a suite of prints by Ruotte and Prud'hon fils depicting episodes in the story of Mademoiselle de La Vallire; Prud'hon fils engraved the present painting which was the sixth in the suite. All six paintings still belonged to the editor Basset at the time of his estate sale on May 9, 1874.