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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