Details
A PAIR OF HÖCHST DANCERS modelled by J.F. Lück, their arms outstretched, their matching clothes painted with purple flower-sprays with gilt edging and tied with yellow bows, his hair tied in a beaded plait and wearing pale-blue breeches, she with a beaded plumed headdress, both standing on scroll-moulded bases enriched with puce and gilt (his right hand restored, some minor restoration to fingers and minute chipping to bows), red wheel marks, circa 1755
17.5cm & 18.5cm. high (2)
17.5cm & 18.5cm. high (2)
Provenance
Baron Max von Goldschmidt Rothschild
Mrs. Charles Dunlap, New York, sale Sotheby Parke Bernet Inc., 3 December 1975, lot 273
Anon., sale Christie's, 25 March 1985, lot 54
Mrs. Charles Dunlap, New York, sale Sotheby Parke Bernet Inc., 3 December 1975, lot 273
Anon., sale Christie's, 25 March 1985, lot 54
Exhibited
Vacheron Constantin Geneva, 14-30 November 1978, "Exposition de prestigieux et rares objets de vertu et porcelaines européennes du 18e siècle", cat. no. 16
The female dancer perhaps derived from an engraving of the dancer Sallé by Nicholas de Larmessin after a painting by Lancret
Cf. Dr. Erika Pauls-Eisenbeiss, op. cit., vol. II, pp. 30-31, a pair in the Victoria and Albert Museum and in the Kunstgewerbemuseum, Berlin
The female dancer perhaps derived from an engraving of the dancer Sallé by Nicholas de Larmessin after a painting by Lancret
Cf. Dr. Erika Pauls-Eisenbeiss, op. cit., vol. II, pp. 30-31, a pair in the Victoria and Albert Museum and in the Kunstgewerbemuseum, Berlin