Jean-Baptiste Deshays de Coleville (1729-1765)

A caravan of peasants and animals

Details

Jean-Baptiste Deshays de Coleville (1729-1765)
Deshays, J.-B.
A caravan of peasants and animals
oil on paper laid down on board
11.3/8 x 11.3/8 in. (288 x 289 mm.)

Provenance

Alphonse Kann; Paris, 6-8 December 1920, lot 6 (as Boucher).
Professor Hans R. Hahnloser, Bern (as Boucher).
Private Collection, Washington.

Exhibited

Lucerne, Kunstmuseum, Die Hauptwerke der Sammlung Hahnloser, 1940, no. 20.

Lot Essay

Two drawings of the same technique by Deshays were in the Paignon Dijonval collection, M. Bnard, Cabinet de M. Paignon Dijonval, 1810, no. 3602. One was described as a 'Marche de bergers avec leurs troupeaux; une femme tenant un enfant est monte sur un cheval'.
Marc Sandoz in his Deshays catalogue mentions many compositions of such subjects, usually described, following Castiglione, as Caravane, M. Sandoz, Jean-Baptiste Deshays, 1729-1765, Paris, 1977.
Deshays was Boucher's favorite pupil and married his daughter, which explains that both artists have sometimes been confused.