Live Auction 20906The Collection of Pierre Durand
CHARLES-NICOLAS COCHIN (PARIS 1715-1790)
Lot 204

CHARLES-NICOLAS COCHIN (PARIS 1715-1790)

A performance at a theater

Closed27 January 2022

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CHARLES-NICOLAS COCHIN (PARIS 1715-1790)
A performance at a theater
black chalk, brush and gray ink, watercolor, pen and black ink framing lines, watermark ‘B*C*RICHARD’ in a cartouche with a crescent below
13 1⁄4 x 18 1⁄4 in. (33.7 x 46.4 cm)

Félix Doisteau; Paris, 9-11 June 1909, lot 125 (as Gabriel de Saint-Aubin).
Georges Dormeuil (1856-1939), Paris (L. 1146a); by descent.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby’s, London, 3 July 2013, lot 56 (as attributed to Moreau le Jeune).
with The Chinese Porcelain Company, New York.

Specialist note

Émile Dacier, who first publised this drawing as a particularly important work by Gabriel de Saint-Aubin (op. cit., 1911), later conceded it must be the work of Cochin (op. cit., 1931, II, p. 83). He notes a drawing by Cochin representing the same, probably imaginary theater was formerly in the collection of the Goncourt brothers (Launay, op. cit., no. 54, ill.).