Live Auction 10448Old Master & British Paintings
Studio of Carle van Loo (Nice 1705-1765 Paris)
Lot 574

Studio of Carle van Loo (Nice 1705-1765 Paris)

Allegory of Comedy

Closed30 April 2015

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GBP 9,375

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Studio of Carle van Loo (Nice 1705-1765 Paris)
Allegory of Comedy
inscribed 'Aristophane / Ménandre' (lower centre)
oil on canvas
42 x 56 1/8 in. (106.8 x 142.4 cm.)

Anonymous sale; Christie’s, London, 28 October 1955, lot 129, as RAOUX (320 gns to Smith).

Specialist note

The present lot is a workshop replica of the original composition painted by the artist for Madame de Pompadour (1721-1764) for the Chateau de Bellevue, now in the Pushkin Museum, Moscow (no. 742).