The Lion Hunt

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The Lion Hunt

France, 1735
Paintings
Oil on canvas
Canvas: 23 5/8 × 16 in. (60.01 × 40.64 cm) Frame: 29 1/2 × 22 1/2 × 2 5/8 in. (74.93 × 57.15 × 6.67 cm)
European Painting Acquisition Fund (M.2001.135)
European Painting
Not currently on public view

Provenance

1906 Dr. Paul Mersch, Paris, sold by auction, Drouot, Paris, March 26, 1906, lot 4 [ill., as by François Boucher].

Comte and Comtesse de Niel.

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1906 Dr. Paul Mersch, Paris, sold by auction, Drouot, Paris, March 26, 1906, lot 4 [ill., as by François Boucher].

Comte and Comtesse de Niel.

1976 Private Collection, sold;  

1976 - 1999 Charles de Bestegui, France, Château de Groussay, sold by auction, Sotheby’s, Château de Groussay, June 2 , 1999, lot 324 [ill., as de Troy].

2001 Galerie Jean-François Heim, France, Paris, sold;  

2001 - present Los Angeles County Museum of Art, United States, California, Los Angeles

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Bibliography

  • Brière, Gaston. “Jean-François de Troy.” In Louis Dimier, Les peintres français du XVIIIème siècle. 2 vols. Paris and Brussels: G. van Oest, 1930
  • Les artistes du Salon de 1737. Paris, France : Société nationale des beaux-arts, 1930.
  • Brière, Gaston. “Jean-François de Troy.” In Louis Dimier, Les peintres français du XVIIIème siècle. 2 vols. Paris and Brussels: G. van Oest, 1930
  • Les artistes du Salon de 1737. Paris, France : Société nationale des beaux-arts, 1930.
  • Galerie Cailleux. Exposition esquisses maquettes : projets et ébauches de l'ecole française du XVII siècle : peintures et sculptures au profit de la Société des Amis de l'Enfance. Paris, France : La Galerie, 1934.
  • Salmon, Xavier. "Versailles: Les chasses exotiques de Louis XV." Estampille/l'Objet d'Art, no. 297 (Dec. 1995):
  • Marandel, J. Patrice.  French oil sketches from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 17th century - 19th century.  Los Angeles:  The Ahmanson Foundation, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2002.
  • Leribault, Christophe. Jean-François de Troy (1679-1752). Paris: Arthena, 2002
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