Dog Pointing Partrideges in a Landscape

* Nearly 20,000 images of artworks the museum believes to be in the public domain are available to download on this site. Other images may be protected by copyright and other intellectual property rights. By using any of these images you agree to LACMA's Terms of Use.

Dog Pointing Partrideges in a Landscape

France, 1719
Paintings
Oil on canvas
44 x 56 1/2 in. (111.76 x 143.51 cm) Frame: 53 × 66 × 2 in. (134.62 × 167.64 × 5.08 cm)
Gift of The Ahmanson Foundation (AC1993.39.1)
Not currently on public view

Provenance

The family of the prince de Ligne,(1) possibly since the early 18th century, sold 1993 through Banque Paribas to; LACMA.

Footnote

...

The family of the prince de Ligne,(1) possibly since the early 18th century, sold 1993 through Banque Paribas to; LACMA.

Footnote

(1) It is unknown when the painting entered the collection of the de Ligne family, one of the oldest noble families in Belgium, whose principal residence since 1394 was the castle at Beloeil. In the eighteenth century, Claude Lamoral II (1685–1766), 6th prince de Ligne, transformed the fortified castle into a luxurious country estate. Inspired by Louis XIV’s Versailles, it was elegantly furnished as a French château, housing the family’s art collection. It is therefore possible that Desportes’s painting entered the family’s collection at that time, possibly even acquired directly from the internationally admired artist.

More...

Bibliography

  • Lastic, Georges de, and Pierre Jacky. Desportes: Catalogue Raisonné. Saint-Rémy-en-l'Eau: Éditions Monelle Hayot, 2010.
  • Lehmbeck, Leah, editor. Gifts of European Art from The Ahmanson Foundation. Vol. 2, French Painting and Sculpture. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2019.
  • Lastic, Georges de, and Pierre Jacky. Desportes: Catalogue Raisonné. Saint-Rémy-en-l'Eau: Éditions Monelle Hayot, 2010.
  • Lehmbeck, Leah, editor. Gifts of European Art from The Ahmanson Foundation. Vol. 2, French Painting and Sculpture. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2019.
  • François Desportes: Pintor francés del siglo XVII, obra de la colección de Sévres (1661-1743). Mexico: Centro cultural arte contemporaneo, 1994.
More...