Lot Essay
Four similar overdoors by the artist are in the Musée des Beaux-Arts, Béziers
Details
Jean Coustou (1719-1791)
A trompe-l'oeil still life of a sculpted Portrait in bas relief inscribed 'LE COMTE DE CAYLUS', a framed Print of a Landscape, Volumes of Cabinet de Croisat and Vues de Rome, Prints and a Goldfinch with an Urn set in a Stone Niche
indistinctly signed '704(?) Coustou pinxit'
24½ x 50 1/8in. (62.2 x 127.4cm.)
A trompe-l'oeil still life of a sculpted Portrait in bas relief inscribed 'LE COMTE DE CAYLUS', a framed Print of a Landscape, Volumes of Cabinet de Croisat and Vues de Rome, Prints and a Goldfinch with an Urn set in a Stone Niche
indistinctly signed '704(?) Coustou pinxit'
24½ x 50 1/8in. (62.2 x 127.4cm.)
Provenance
Anon. Sale, Christie's Monaco, 16 June 1989, lot 53