Vente aux enchères en direct 4936Old Masters & British Paintings
Meiffren Conte (Marseilles c. 1630-1705)
Lot 144PROPERTY OF A EUROPEAN COLLECTOR (LOT 144)

Meiffren Conte (Marseilles c. 1630-1705)

A silver incense burner and sideboard dish, a silver-gilt ewer and vase with nautilus shells, a sabre and a jewelry box on a ledge draped with a velvet curtain

Fermé4 May 2012

Prix réalisé

GBP 27,500

Considering selling a similar item?

Discover its value with a complimentary estimate from our specialists.

Plus d'informations

Comment vendre

Meiffren Conte (Marseilles c. 1630-1705)
A silver incense burner and sideboard dish, a silver-gilt ewer and vase with nautilus shells, a sabre and a jewelry box on a ledge draped with a velvet curtain
oil on canvas
40 x 50¾ in. (101.6 x 128.9 cm.)

with Galerie Cailleux, Paris.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, New York, 23 May 1997, lot 62 ($41,400).

Note du spécialiste

The present work, crowded with precious objects ranging from the silver incense burner to the rare sea shells, is a version, with differences, of the painting in the Musée de L'art et Industrie, Saint Etienne (see M. Faré, Le Grand Siècle de la Nature Morte en France: Le XVIIe Siècle, 1974, p. 226) in which the red drapery of the present work is replaced with a green one. That painting is discussed at length by Y. Allemand, Musée de Saint Etienne, Deux peintures du XVIIIe Siècle, La Revue du Louvre, no. 40-5, 1968, p. 229-30. Conte used several of the objects seen in the present work on a number of occasions; the sideboard dish, for example, reappears in a painting in the Heim-Gairac collection, Paris (Faré, op. cit., pp. 226-7), and the silver ewer in a painting in the Musée des Arts Decoratifs, Paris (ibid., p. 224).