A Capriccio of a Classical Triumphal Arch and Temples with Alexander and Diogenes

細節

Jean Lemaire (1598-1659)
A Capriccio of a Classical Triumphal Arch and Temples with Alexander and Diogenes
oil on canvas
29¼ x 38in. (74.3 x 96.5cm.)

來源

Depile Sale, lot 299 (according to Lebrun; no such sale is listed by Lugt, who does, however, record a De Pille sale of paintings held in Paris on 2-3 May 1785 under the direction of Lebrun).
Jean-Baptiste-Pierre Le Brun; sale, Paris, 11-30 April 1791, lot 159, as Poussin.
Noël Desenfans, Consul General of Poland, England, who formed a collection for Stanislaus Augustus Poniatowski, King of Poland (1732-1798); the latter's sale, Skinner and Dyke, London, 16-18 March 1802, lot 57, as Poussin.
Maurice Baron, England.

出版

N. Desenfans, A Descriptive Catalogue of some Pictures, of the different Schools, purchased for His Majesty the late King of Poland, London, 1802, no. 56.
A. Blunt, Jean Lemaire, Painter of Architectural Fantasies, The Burlington Magazine, LXXXII, Oct. 1943, p. 245, pl. IVD.

展覽

Bristol Museum and Art Gallery, French Art 1600-1800, 1938, no. 4, as Attributed to Charles Dufresnoy.
London, Wildenstein, French Painting of the XVII Century, 1947, no. 21.

拍品專文

Lemaire, the finest French exponent of the architectural capriccio in the seventeenth century, went to Rome in 1623, remaining there until 1638, when he was nominated the King's Garde du Cabinet de Peinture. Although he is mentioned as visiting at Vouet's house at Easter 1624, the dominant influence on his style was his friend Poussin, with whom he was living in 1630 and with whom he is said to have collaborated. He was famous in his time and his work was sought after by the most distinguished collectors.

The sarcophagus on the right in the present picture recurs in one of Lemaire's two paintings in the Louvre.

Jean-Baptiste-Pierre Le Brun, the former husband of Louise-Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, began his career as an artist but became one of the greatest eighteenth-century French dealer-connoisseurs.