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LA COUR A L'EPOQUE DE LOUIS XIII

81,3 x 100,3 cm 1875

Huile sur toile datée et signée 1875

Proposée à la vente par Sotheby's à New York, estimée 30 à 40 000 $ vendue 35 000 $ provenance Miss M.D. Graham

15 novembre 1984,

Vente Sotheby's à New York 19th century european, paintings, drawings watercolors and sculpture, 12 octobre 1994

Plaque photographique conservée.

 

Citée "Two court gallants, their faces expressing smiling self-satisfaction, are depieted at their ease on a long andelaborately carved bench in a court before a brilliantly ornate building. One is seated, examining a medallion portrait wich apparently has been handed him by his friend, who lies extended at full length on the bench,smoking a delicate long-stemmed pipe. Their costumes are mouse-gray and drah, purple, white, yellow and buff, and their hats have long plumes. One has shot some birds which lie on the parement. Blossoming vines and flowers trail over the balcony of the building and climb its wall, and the entire compositionnis filled with varied color and intricacy of detail. Pigeons appear before the balcony window, one with a beart-sealed message tied to its neck. Signed on the lower right Paul Viry, 1875.

To be sold to close an estate"

in American Gallery March 12th 1914.