Alexandre François Desportes
Dog Pointing Partrideges in a Landscape1719

Not on view

Oil painting of a white and brown spotted hunting dog on point in a wooded landscape, with two partridges near a grapevine-wrapped tree at right

Artist or Maker: Alexandre François Desportes
France, Champigneulle, 1661-1743
Title: Dog Pointing Partrideges in a Landscape
Place Made: France
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)
Credit Line: Gift of The Ahmanson Foundation
Accession Number: AC1993.39.1
Classification: Paintings
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: François Desportes: Pintor francés del siglo XVII, obra de la colección de Sévres (1661-1743). Mexico: Centro cultural arte contemporaneo, 1994.
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.

Alexandre François Desportes
Dog Pointing Partrideges in a Landscape1719

Not on view

Artist or Maker: Alexandre François Desportes
France, Champigneulle, 1661-1743
Title: Dog Pointing Partrideges in a Landscape
Place Made: France
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)
Credit Line: Gift of The Ahmanson Foundation
Accession Number: AC1993.39.1
Classification: Paintings
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: François Desportes: Pintor francés del siglo XVII, obra de la colección de Sévres (1661-1743). Mexico: Centro cultural arte contemporaneo, 1994.
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.