JEAN-BAPTISTE DESHAYS (1729-1765)

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JEAN-BAPTISTE DESHAYS (1729-1765)

The sleeping Hector

oil on canvas
29 x 38¾in. (73.7 x 98.4cm.)
Provenance
with Bruno Meissner, Zurich, 1976.
with Colnaghi, London.

Lot Essay

The present picture may be compared to the figure of Hector in Hector exposé sur les rives du Scamandre, Deshays' reception piece of 1759, now in the Musée Fabre, Montpellier (see J. Locquin, La peinture d'histoire en France de 1747 à 1785, Paris, 1978, fig. 47).

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