- Title
- Dog Pointing Partrideges in a Landscape
- Date Made
- 1719
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 44 x 56 1/2 in. (111.76 x 143.51 cm)
Frame: 53 × 66 × 2 in. (134.62 × 167.64 × 5.08 cm)
- Accession Number
- AC1993.39.1
- Collecting Area
- European Painting and Sculpture
- Provenance
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.
- Selected Bibliography
- 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.
