A sultana, reclining on a cushion, playing a lute

Details

Circle of Carle Vanloo (Nice 1705-1765 Paris)
A sultana, reclining on a cushion, playing a lute
oil on canvas
49¼ x 38¼ in. (125.1 x 97.1 cm.)

Provenance

Jules Barat; sale, Paris, 28-29 April 1885, lot 185, as Carle Vanloo.
Baron du Theil du Havelt; his sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 19 March 1906, lot 18, illustrated, as Carle Vanloo.
Montaignac collection.
Anon. Sale [The Property of a Collector], Christie's, London, 29 November 1974, lot 18, as Carle Vanloo (sold £13,000).

Literature

A. Boppe, 'Les "peintres de turcs" au XVIIIe siècle', Gazette des Beaux-Arts, XXXIV, July-December 1905, p. 226, illustrated p. 224, noting an anonymous engraving edited by Crépy, as Carle Vanloo. P. de Nolhac, 'Les Portraits de la Pompadour', L'Art et les Artistes, II, March 1906, p. 191, illustrated p. 186, as Carle Vanloo.
M.-C. Sahut, catalogue of the exhibition, Carle Vanloo, Premier peintre du roi, Nice, Clermont-Ferrard and Nancy, January-August 1977, p. 76, under no. 150, as 'After Carle Vanloo'.
A. Boppe, Les Peintres du Bosphore au dix-huitième siècle, Paris, 1989, p. 176, illustrated.

Exhibited

Paris, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Exposition de La Turquerie au XVIIIe siècle, 1911, no. 77, as Carle Vanloo.

Special notice

No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 17.5% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis.

Lot Essay

This picture was for long regarded as the work commissioned by the marquise de la Pompadour for the trumeau in her bedroom in the château de Bellevue, costing 1,200 livres and paid for by the Trésor Royal in 1754, one of three turqueries given to Vanloo, of which the other two are regarded as works by Jean-Baptiste-Martin Pierre. Removed from Bellevue in, or shortly after, 1757, and therefore not included in the inventory of 1764, the original of this composition was sold by Galerie Charpentier, Etienne Ader, Paris, 4 December 1954, lot 12. The present work was first re-attributed by Marie-Catherine Sahut in the 1977 exhibition catalogue, loc. cit.

More from Important Old Master Pictures

View All