Nicolas-Antoine Taunay (Paris 1755-1830)

Military troops decamping

Details

Nicolas-Antoine Taunay (Paris 1755-1830)
Military troops decamping
signed and dated 'Taunay 1823' (lower right)
oil on canvas
13 x 16 in. (33 x 40.6 cm.)
Painted in 1823.

Provenance

Taunay sale (+); Paris, 28 February 1831, lot 12.
Bertrand (+); Febre, Delbergue-Cormont, 13 November 1855, lot 425.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, Monaco, 21 June 1991, lot 161.

Literature

A. d'Escragnolle-Taunay, A missaio artistica de 1816, Rio de Janeiro, 1912, p. 58.
C. Lebrun Jouve, Nicolas-Antoine Taunay, Paris, 2003, p. 307, no. P.753, illustrated.

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Lot Essay

The present work is a reduced version of a painting executed by Taunay circa 1808 (64 x 81 cm., location unknown; C. Lebrun Jouve op. cit., no. P.557). Lebrun Jouve suggests that this replica could have been painted as a contemporaneous modello of the larger version, and finished upon Taunay's return from Brazil after 1821, explaining the inconsistency in date between the two versions. She suggests that it is also possible that it could have been painted for the duc d'Angoulême in honor of his triumph in Spain 1814, and completed in 1823.

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