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Jacques-Laurent Agasse (1767-1849)

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Jacques-Laurent Agasse (1767-1849)

Miss Cazenove, mounted on a grey Hunter, a dog running alongside

signed with initials lower left 'JLA'
30½ x 25½in. (77.5 x 64.5cm.)
Provenance
H. Arthurton, 1935, Sale Sotheby's, 6 July 1949, lot 18, repr. as 24 x 29in. (sic) (290 gns. to Head)
thence by descent
Literature
R. Loche, L. Boissonnas, D. Buyssens and C. Sanger, Jacques-Laurent Agasse 1767-1849, exhibition catalogue, Musée d'Art et d'Histoire, Geneva, and Tate Gallery, London, November 1988-April 1989, p. 176 under no. 69
Exhibited
Whitechapel Art Gallery, Cricket and Sporting Pictures, January-March 1935, no. 87

Lot Essay

Agasse's manuscript Record Book lists no fewer than five versions of what seems to be this composition: i) "Portrait of Miss Cazenove on a grey horse, S. Bishop's half length" in March 1808, exhibited at the Royal Academy that year as no. 166, "Portrait of a Lady" (a "Bishop's half length" measured 56 x 44in.); ii) "June [1816] Copy [from?] an old picture portrait of a lady - small"; iii) also under June 1816, "ditto small"; iv) "August [1835] copy. A lady on horseback. Kitcat" (a "Kitcat" was 36 x 28in.); v) "March [1842]. A copy of the lady on horseback. Kitcat". Three versions, all replicas in the artist's own hand rather than copies, are known today: i) the present picture; ii) that exhibited in Geneva and London in 1988-9, signed, 36 x 28in. ex private collection, New York, and Stephen Somerville, London, repr. in colour; iii) sold Sotheby's, 16 November 1988, lot 125, repr. in colour, 36 x 27¾in., ex Powles family, very close to ii), with a long-eared spaniel, but with a different background on the right. In this version the dog has short ears and the pond is seen behind the horse and to the right rather than on the left. In size it corresponds to the standard "Three Quarter" size and, as is suggested by Colston Sanger in the 1988-9 catalogue, is presumably one of the two versions painted by Agasse in 1816

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