Saint Francis preaching in an extensive landscape, a town beyond

Details

Nicolas Antoine Taunay (Paris 1755-1830)
Saint Francis preaching in an extensive landscape, a town beyond
oil on canvas
50 7/8 x 70 7/8 in. (129 x 180 cm.)
in a neoclassical carved and gilded frame

Exhibited

Paris, Salon, 1787, no. 213.

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Lot Essay

We are grateful to Mrs. Lebrun-Jouve for confirming the attribution on the basis of photographs and for suggesting that the work was painted in Rome in circa 1784/5. This picture will be included in her forthcoming catalogue raisonné of the artist's oeuvre, as no. P225. A related composition by Taunay, datable to circa 1805, is in the Musée d'Arras.

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