Lot Essay
Depictions of clove pinks, or carnations, appear in a number of works by Le Moyne de Morgues and by other artists in his circle.
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Clove Pinks (Dianthus caryophyllus)
Details
JACQUES LE MOYNE DE MORGUES (1533-1588)
Clove Pinks (Dianthus caryophyllus)
watercolour and bodycolour on paper prepared as vellum, framing lines in pen and brown ink, watercolour and gold paint, fragmentary watermark crown surmounted by a flower
7 5⁄8 x 5 ¾ in. (19.5 x 14.5 cm.)
Clove Pinks (Dianthus caryophyllus)
watercolour and bodycolour on paper prepared as vellum, framing lines in pen and brown ink, watercolour and gold paint, fragmentary watermark crown surmounted by a flower
7 5⁄8 x 5 ¾ in. (19.5 x 14.5 cm.)
Provenance
Du Many (according to an inscription on the frontispiece of the album in which the present sheet was included).
Anonymous sale; Sotheby’s, New York, 26 January 2005, part of lot 46.
Arader Galleries, New York.
Acquired from the above.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby’s, New York, 26 January 2005, part of lot 46.
Arader Galleries, New York.
Acquired from the above.
Literature
P. Bower, ‘Magical Illusion: Two Collections of Watercolours by Jacques Le Moyne de Morgues (c1533-1588)’, The Quarterly. The Journal of the British Association of Paper Historians, no. 74, 2010, pp. 7-11.
M. Kornell and D. Margócsy, ‘‘A Spring of Immortal Colours’. Jacques Le Moyne De Morgues (c. 1533-1588) and Picturing Plants in the Sixteenth Century’, Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, LXXXVI, 2023, p. 122, note 43 (as among the numerous sheets ‘attributed to or associated with Le Moyne’ needing to be ‘reassessed').
M. Kornell and D. Margócsy, ‘‘A Spring of Immortal Colours’. Jacques Le Moyne De Morgues (c. 1533-1588) and Picturing Plants in the Sixteenth Century’, Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, LXXXVI, 2023, p. 122, note 43 (as among the numerous sheets ‘attributed to or associated with Le Moyne’ needing to be ‘reassessed').
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