Michel-François Dandré-Bardon (Aix-en-Provence 1700-1778 Paris)

The supplication of Saint James

Details

Michel-François Dandré-Bardon (Aix-en-Provence 1700-1778 Paris)
The supplication of Saint James
signed 'Dandré Bardon'
red chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash
8 5/8 x 6 5/8 in. (22 x 17 cm.)

Provenance

Georgina Bland (according to an inscription on the backing board 'From Georgina Bland's Rome album, 1827').

Lot Essay

An altarpiece of this subject, with some differences in the composition, is in the Church of Notre-Dame-du-Rosaire in Lambesc, France (D. Chol, Michel-François Dandré-Bardon ou l'apogée de la peinture en Provence au XVIIIe siècle, Aix-en-Provence, 1987, no. 61). Another painting of the subject is in the Musée Magnin, Dijon (D. Chol, op. cit., no. 62).

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