A lady in a red dress in an interior

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Jean-Baptiste Le Prince Metz 1704-1781 Saint-Denis-du-Port
A lady in a red dress in an interior
signed 'Le Prince' (on the reverse)
oil on paper laid down on canvas
15 7/8 x 10¼ in. 40.3 x 26 cm.

Provenance

F.J.E. Horstmann, Kasteel Oud Clingendael.
with Jacques Goudstikker, Amsterdam, 1930.
Looted by the Nazi authorities, July 1940.
Recovered by the Allies, 1946.
in the custody of the Dutch Government.
Restituted in February 2006 to the heir of Jacques Goudstikker.

Literature

Catalogus van Schilderijen en Beeldhouwwerken Limburgs Museum voor Kunst en Oudheden, Bisschoppelijk Museum Bisdom Roermond, Maastricht, 1958, p. 37.
C. B. Bailey, 'Exhibition Review: Dijon, Paris and Rotterdam. French Paintings from Dutch collections', Burlington Magazine, December 1992, p. 833.
Old Master Paintings: An illustrated summary catalogue, Rijksdienst Beeldende Kunst (The Netherlandish Office for the Fine Arts), The Hague, 1992, p. 176, no. 1483, illustrated.
A. Wintermute, 'Exhibition Review: French Paintings in Holland', Apollo, February 1993, p. 130.

Exhibited

Dijon, Musée des Beaux-Arts; Paris, Institut Neerlandais; Rotterdam, Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, French Paintings from Dutch Collections, 1600-1800, 1992-3, no. 30 (catalogue by P. Rosenberg, Guido Jansen & Jeroen Giltaij).
Maastricht, Bonnefantenmuseum, on loan.

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Please note the following additional information:

Jean-Baptiste Le Prince, a pupil of Boucher, is best known for his representations of everyday life in Russia, where he worked from 1758 to 1763. In the present, charming oil sketch, Le Prince depicts a young woman in Russian costume standing beside a balustrade. She is holding a bunch of flowers in her right hand while raising her skirt with her left to reveal the white petticoats underneath.

Executed with thick, creamy brushstrokes of oil paint on paper, not canvas (as noted by Colin B. Bailey, op. cit), the present sketch was first identified by Alan Wintermute (op. cit.) as Le Prince's study for the figure of a standing girl at the rear left of the exotic Fjte Russe, a masterpiece by the artist in the Musie des Beaux-Arts, Angers.

Lot Essay

Jean-Baptiste Le Prince, a pupil of Boucher, is best known for his representations of everyday life in Russia, where he worked from 1758 to 1763. In the present, charming oil sketch, Le Prince depicts a young woman in Russian costume standing beside a balustrade. She is holding a bunch of flowers in her right hand while raising her skirt with her left to reveal the white petticoats underneath.

Executed with thick, creamy brushstrokes of oil paint on paper, not canvas (as noted by Colin B. Bailey, op. cit), the present sketch was first identified by Alan Wintermute (op. cit.) as Le Prince's study for the figure of a standing girl at the rear left of the exotic Fete Russe, a masterpiece by the artist in the Musie des Beaux-Arts, Angers.

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