An elegant hawking party

Details

Carle van Loo (Nice 1705-1765 Paris)
An elegant hawking party
signed (?, strengthened) 'Carle Van Loo' (lower right)
oil on canvas
21¼ x 15½ in. (54.7 x 39 cm.)

Provenance

Comte de F. [Faucompré]; Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 26 March 1914, lot 344, sold for 2000FF to Lindenbaum.
Mr. A. L.; Palais Galliéra, Paris, 9 June 1964, lot 48, where acquired by René Küss.

Exhibited

Nice, Clermont-Ferrand, Nancy, Carle Van Loo, premier peintre du roi, 21 January-15 August 1977, no. 48, p. 41, illustrated.
Versailles, Amiens, Les Chasses exotiques de Louis XV, 14 October 1995-12 May 1996, no. 67, illustrated.

Engraved

S.F. Ravenet (in reverse).

Special notice

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Lot Essay

According to the engraving the present sketch and its pendant, Cavaliers at rest (lost), were designed for King Louis XV and intended to be realised en grand. It seems that the final paintings were never actually delivered. Marie-Catherine Sahut has suggested they were intended for the Petite Galerie du roi at Versailles, whilst Xavier Salmon has suggested that the compositions were destined to the petits appartements at Fontainebleau.

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