Jean-François de Troy
The Lion Hunt1735

Not on view

Oil painting of a turbaned hunters on rearing horses surrounded by a pack of dogs in a wooded landscape, painted with loose, energetic brushwork

Artist or Maker: Jean-François de Troy
France, 1679-1752, active Italy, Rome
Title: The Lion Hunt
Place Made: France
Date Made: 1735
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 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)
Credit Line: European Painting Acquisition Fund
Accession Number: M.2001.135
Classification: Paintings
Collecting Area: European Painting and Sculpture
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.

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
Selected Bibliography: 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.
Salmon, Xavier. "Versailles: Les chasses exotiques de Louis XV." Estampille/l'Objet d'Art, no. 297 (Dec. 1995):
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.
Leribault, Christophe. Jean-François de Troy (1679-1752). Paris: Arthena, 2002

Jean-François de Troy
The Lion Hunt1735

Not on view

Artist or Maker: Jean-François de Troy
France, 1679-1752, active Italy, Rome
Title: The Lion Hunt
Place Made: France
Date Made: 1735
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 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)
Credit Line: European Painting Acquisition Fund
Accession Number: M.2001.135
Classification: Paintings
Collecting Area: European Painting and Sculpture
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.

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
Selected Bibliography: 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.
Salmon, Xavier. "Versailles: Les chasses exotiques de Louis XV." Estampille/l'Objet d'Art, no. 297 (Dec. 1995):
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.
Leribault, Christophe. Jean-François de Troy (1679-1752). Paris: Arthena, 2002