Le concert champêtre

Details

Sébastien Jacques Leclerc des Gobelins (Paris 1734-1785)
Le concert champêtre
signed and dated 'LeClerc / 1749' (lower left, on the stone)
oil on canvas
25 3/8 x 31 1/8 in. (64.5 x 78.9 cm.)

Provenance

Anonymous sale; Palais Galliéra, Paris, 2 December 1975, lot 26.
with Didier Aaron, Paris, where acquired by the present owner in 1981.

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Lot Essay

Sébastien Jacques Leclerc was born into a prolific dynasty of artists. He studied under his father, the celebrated history painter and Peintre du Roi, Sébastien Leclerc II (1676-1763); his grandfather, Sébastien Leclerc I (1637-1714), was the Graveur Ordinaire du Roi, and the leading engraver of his day. Sébastien Jacques Leclerc was, himself, an assistant teacher of perspective at the Académie Royale de Peinture, and a teacher at the Gobelin works. He drew much of his inspiration for his fêtes champêtres from the genres paintings of Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684-1721), though his scenes frequently display a more pastoral and narrative character.

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