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拍品專文
This 'charming' picture (as described by the commentator in the Anné Littéraire), was exhibited at the Paris Salon of 1761 along with five other paintings by Doyen, including the Venus and Diomedes, now in the Hermitage, St.Petersburg.
Although it is not clear whether he bought it at the Salon, the present picture soon entered the prestigious collection of Ange-Laurent de La Live de Jully (1725-79). In 1751, La Live de Jully had inherited a large fortune from his father. He was elected an associate member of the Académie as a tribute to his prestige as a collector. In 1756 he bought the appointment of Introducteur des Ambassades which made him closer to the Royal court and to Madame de Pompadour in particular. He described his collection, which he had formed with the help of Pierre-Jean Mariette, in a guide which was published in 1764 (the present picture is p. 58 in 'première pièce sur jardin'). La Live de Jully bought pictures directly from Greuze, Chardin, Desportes, and Oudry, as well as acquiring Largillière's famous Belle Strasbourgeoise. His collection was also rich in Dutch and Flemish pictures forming the 'cabinet flamand', among which the chef-d'oeuvre was the Portrait of Helène Fourment by Peter Paul Rubens, today in the Musée du Louvre.
La Live de Jully is well known today as a pioneering patron of neoclassical furniture, but during his lifetime, he also did much to make contemporary French painting widely known to foreigners and his fellow amateurs (see C.B. Bailey, op. cit.)
Visiting the 1761 Salon, Gabriel de Saint-Aubin sketched the present painting in his livret; see E. Dacier, Catalogues de ventes et livrets de Salon illustrés illustrés par Gabriel de Saint-Aubin, Paris, 1909, reprinted 1993, VI, no. 92.
Although it is not clear whether he bought it at the Salon, the present picture soon entered the prestigious collection of Ange-Laurent de La Live de Jully (1725-79). In 1751, La Live de Jully had inherited a large fortune from his father. He was elected an associate member of the Académie as a tribute to his prestige as a collector. In 1756 he bought the appointment of Introducteur des Ambassades which made him closer to the Royal court and to Madame de Pompadour in particular. He described his collection, which he had formed with the help of Pierre-Jean Mariette, in a guide which was published in 1764 (the present picture is p. 58 in 'première pièce sur jardin'). La Live de Jully bought pictures directly from Greuze, Chardin, Desportes, and Oudry, as well as acquiring Largillière's famous Belle Strasbourgeoise. His collection was also rich in Dutch and Flemish pictures forming the 'cabinet flamand', among which the chef-d'oeuvre was the Portrait of Helène Fourment by Peter Paul Rubens, today in the Musée du Louvre.
La Live de Jully is well known today as a pioneering patron of neoclassical furniture, but during his lifetime, he also did much to make contemporary French painting widely known to foreigners and his fellow amateurs (see C.B. Bailey, op. cit.)
Visiting the 1761 Salon, Gabriel de Saint-Aubin sketched the present painting in his livret; see E. Dacier, Catalogues de ventes et livrets de Salon illustrés illustrés par Gabriel de Saint-Aubin, Paris, 1909, reprinted 1993, VI, no. 92.