NICOLAS ANTOINE TAUNAY* (1755-1830)

THE PROPERTY OF A PRIVATE COLLECTOR

Details

NICOLAS ANTOINE TAUNAY* (1755-1830)

The Departure of the Prodigal Son

signed 'Taunay'--oil on panel
11 7/8 x 17¼in. (30.1 x 43.8cm.)

Provenance

Augusto Carlos da Silva Telles, Sao Paulo, Brazil
with T. Brussier, Paris

Literature

Arlequin au Muséum, ou critique en Vaudeville des tableaux exposés au Salon, 1806, p. 71
Explication des Ouvrages de Peinture, Sculptures, Architecture et Gravure, des Artistes vivants, Exposés au Musée Napoléon, le 25 sept. 1806, 1806, p. 93, no. 492
Le Pausanias français, ou Description du Salon de 1806, 1808, p. 454, no. 492
Baron Portalis, Les dessinateurs d'illustrations au XVIIIe siècle, XX, p. 625
A. d'E. Taunay, Nicolau Antonio Taunay, Documentos Sobre a sua Vida e sua Obra, 1916, p. 41, Descourtis engraving illustrated
E. Bénézit, Dictionnaire critique et documentaire des Peintres, Sculpteurs, Dessinateurs et Graveurs..., 1966, VIII, p. 233

Exhibited

Paris, Salon, 1806

Engraved

Debucourt, in color (according to an inscription on the reverse)
Descourtis (one of a series of four prints after paintings by Taunay from 'The Prodigal Son' series)

Lot Essay

One of a series of four paintings of 'The Prodigal Son' by Taunay
which included 'The Prodigal Son Feasting with the Harlots'; 'The Prodigal Son amongst the Swine' and 'The Return of the Prodigal Son' (Taunay, Ibid.)