Jacques van Schuppen (Fontainebleau 1670-1751 Vienne)
Jacques van Schuppen (Fontainebleau 1670-1751 Vienne)

A female nude, full-length, holding a globe to the right

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Jacques van Schuppen (Fontainebleau 1670-1751 Vienne)
A female nude, full-length, holding a globe to the right
with inscription 'N 1760' and 'No 155. [crossed out] and 192/ Jaques Van Schuppen.' and '1670-1751./ Collection de Chennevières (note au dos)' (on the old mount, by the same hand as the inscription on the verso) and 'Jac. Van Schuppen' (verso of the old mount)
black chalk and pastel on blue (slightly discoloured) paper
18 3/8 x 11 in. (46.8 x 28.1 cm.)
Provenance
Collection formed in the 18th Century in Vienna, passed through M. Joly and dispersed by Michel Habersetzer.
Charles-Philippe, marquis de Chennevières (1820-1899), Paris and Bellesme (L. 2073) and with his inscription 'Jac. van Schuppen/ fils du graveur et fondateur de l'académie royale de Viénne/ ces pastels Viénnent d'une collection formée au 18e. s. a Vienne/ en concurrence de celle de Mariette en France/ Michel en avait achete 1500 [?} de M. Joly' (verso of the mount, L. 3027a) (this inscription is transcribed on the verso of the mount in a later hand preceded by the words 'Note de la main du marquis de Chennevières'); Roblin, Paris, 4-7 April 1900, part of lot 467 ('Académies de femmes nues. Trois dessins'; 16 francs to Lemeilleur).
Louis Deglatigny (1854-1936), Rouen (L. 1768a); Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 4-5 November, 1937, lot 352.
Germain Seligmann (1893-1978), Paris and New York (L. 3863); Christie's, London, 26 March 1968, lot 88.
C. Powney Collection.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's Parke Bernet, New York, 8 May 1973, lot 27, where acquired.
Literature
P. Schreiden, 'Jacques van Schuppen, 1670-1751', Wiener Jahrbuch für Kunstgeschichte, XXX, 1982, no. 95, pl. 103.
L.-A. Prat and L. Lhinares, Histoire des collections du musée du Louvre. La collections de Chennevières. Quatre siècles de dessin français, Paris, 2007, no. 573, p. 136, ill..

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