Charles THÉVENIN (Paris, 1764 - 1838) The... - Lot 189 - Ader

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Charles THÉVENIN (Paris, 1764 - 1838) The... - Lot 189 - Ader
Charles THÉVENIN (Paris, 1764 - 1838) The Charge of the Prince of Lambesc in the Tuileries Garden, July 12, 1789 Pen, black ink, brown wash, black pencil and white gouache highlights on beige paper. (Glued in full on its old mounting). 42,5 x 61,6 cm Provenance: - Former collection of Adolphe-Narcisse Thibaudeau (1795-1856); his sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, April 24, 1857, no. 790 (attributed to Jacques Swebach-Desfontaines). - Former collection of Madame Gustave Meunié, née Félicie Roger d'Hostel (1843-1936). - Former collection Lucien Morel d'Arleux (1866-1962), his son-in-law, then by descent until today. - Anonymous sale, Me Petit, Épernay, 21 October 2017. Exhibitions : - Paris, Concours de l'an II (1794), no. 72, ("Atrocité de Lambesc le 12 juillet 1789. Indian ink drawing, heightened with white. 23 inches wide by 17 high, with the motto: "The excesses of tirannie are a call to Liberty."). - Paris, Salon de 1795, no. 488 ("Lambesc aux Tuileries, ou le 12 juillet 1789. Dessin"). - Paris et la Révolution, Paris, Musée Carnavalet, March 19-May 2, 1931, n° 267 (as Swebach-Desfontaines). Bibliography: - C. Robert, La Révolution française racontée à tous, Paris, 1949, reproduced p. 7. - B. Champigneulle, Promenades dans les jardins de Paris, ses bois et ses squares, Paris, 1965, p. 329, reproduced p. 110. - F. Macé de Lépinay, " Autour de La Fête de la Fédération, Charles Thévenin et la Révolution 1789-1799 ", in Revue de l'Art, Paris, 1989, n° 83, p. 57 and 60 (note 65), ill. 13. - J.-R. Gaborit (dir.), La Révolution française et l'Europe, cat. exp.Paris, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, 16 March-26 June 1989, vol. III, p. 838. After the events of June of the same year, the king called upon the Royal German Regiment - purchased from the Prince of Nassau-Siegen in 1785 - to maintain order in the capital. On July 12, the prince of Lambesc, accompanied by his regiment, received the order to disperse the crowd assembled on the place Louis XV (today's place de la Concorde) to clear the Tuileries garden. It is precisely this moment that Thévenin chose to represent; the abundance of characters gives our sheet a dramatic atmosphere. The National Library has another preparatory drawing for this composition from the Michel Hennin collection (BnF, Department of Prints and Photography, inv. FOL-QB-201 (118).
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