PHILIPPE MERCIER* (1689-1760)

Property from THE ACADEMY OF MUSIC OF PHILADELPHIA, INC.

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PHILIPPE MERCIER* (1689-1760)

An Allegory of Painting: A Lady seated at an Easel attended by a Putto holding a Palette

signed and dated 'Ph. Mercier fecit./Ano. 1740'-- oil on canvas
62½ x 60¼in. (158.8 x 153cm.)

來源

Duke of Leeds, Hornby Castle, England; sale, Foster's, July 14, 1909, lot 114
with Leggatt Brothers, London
Anon. sale, Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, Jan. 25-26, 1963, lot 271
Anon. sale, Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, Nov. 23, 1966, lot 27
Henry P. McIlhenny, Philadelphia, by whom bequeathed to the Academy of Music of Philadelphia, Inc.

出版

Catalogue of paintings and portraits at Hornby Castle, 1868, no. 52
Historical and descriptive catalogue of pictures belonging to his Grace The Duke of Leeds, 1902, no. 156
J. Ingamells and R. Raines, A Catalogue of Paintings, Drawings and Etchings of Philip Mercier, The Walpole Society, 46, 1976-78, no. 222

拍品專文

A companion painting by Mercier representing an Allegory of Poetry, also signed and dated 1740, (62 1/2 x 56 inches) was in the collection of the Duke of Leeds and was sold by Foster's in 1909. Its present whereabouts are unknown (Ingamells and Raines, op. cit., no. 223)