Caricature of Alexandre Deleyre (1726-1797); and Caricature of Pierre-Joseph Pelletan (1747-1829)

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FRANÇOIS-ANDRÉ VINCENT (PARIS 1746-1816)
Caricature of Alexandre Deleyre (1726-1797); and Caricature of Pierre-Joseph Pelletan (1747-1829)
(i) with inscription 'né en 1726/ mort en 1797.' (lower right) and 'De Leyre/ membre de la convention. historien [?]' (lower center);
(ii) with inscription 'né en 1752/ mort en 1829' (lower left); 'Pelletan' (lower center); and 'célebr medecin chirurgien/ membre de l'Institut' (lower right)
pen and brown ink
(i) 5 1⁄8 x 4 in. (13 x 10.2 cm); (ii) 6 ¼ x 5 ¼ in. (16 x 13.3 cm)(2)

Provenance

Anonymous sale; Hôtel Drouot, Paris, ca. 1960 (without catalogue), as part of an album.
with Henri Baderou, Paris.
Elizabeth Paine, Mrs. Thomas Metcalf Card (1896-1992), Boston; by descent to
Joan Metcalf, Mrs. Henry Lee (1924-2019), Boston.

Literature

J.-P. Cuzin, 'Vincent de l'Académie de France à 'Institut de France', in La donation Suzanne et Henri Baderou au musée de Rouen. Peintures et dessins de l'École française, Paris, 1980, p. 99, note 19.
J.-P. Cuzin, François-André Vincent, 1746-1816 entre Fragonard et David, Paris, 2013, nos. 611D and 602D.

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Lot Essay

Alexandre Deleyre (1726-1797) was a French thinker and translator of Latin. He was one of several philosophers who contributed to Diderot's Encyclopédie. This drawing must have been made some time between 1795 Deleyre’s induction into the Institut, and 1797, the year of his death.

Philippe-Jean Pelletan (1747-1829) was a French surgeon and professor of Medicine. In 1795, he was appointed chief surgeon at Hôtel-Dieu. Here, Vincent has captured the doctor mid-sentence in quick, expressive lines.

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