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Lot Essay
Regarded as a master of trompe l’oeil painting, Piat-Joseph Sauvage painted imitations of the bas-relief sculptures of great French masters, such as François Duquesnoy, Clodion, Jean-Baptiste Pigalle and Jacques Sarazin. The present canvas is particularly reminiscent of the carved reliefs of Duquesnoy, such as his Bacchanale of Children and Victory of Divine Love in the Galleria Doria-Pamphilj, Rome.
Sauvage trained in his native Belgium before settling in Paris in 1774, and was received into the Académies of Toulouse and Lille, the Académie de Saint-Luc in Paris, and finally the Académie Royale in 1783. He was made painter to the Prince de Condé from whom he received commissions to decorate the royal residences at Versailles, Fontainebleau and Compiègne with overdoors of faux marble, bronze, cameo and terracotta.
Sauvage trained in his native Belgium before settling in Paris in 1774, and was received into the Académies of Toulouse and Lille, the Académie de Saint-Luc in Paris, and finally the Académie Royale in 1783. He was made painter to the Prince de Condé from whom he received commissions to decorate the royal residences at Versailles, Fontainebleau and Compiègne with overdoors of faux marble, bronze, cameo and terracotta.