Lot n° 102
Estimation :
3000 - 5000
EUR
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Result
: 3 956EUR
Jean Joseph VAUDECHAMP (Rambervillers 1790 - Neuilly-sur-Sei - Lot 102
Jean Joseph VAUDECHAMP (Rambervillers 1790 - Neuilly-sur-Seine 1866)
Portrait of Caroline Le Vassor de Bonneterre (1808-1857), Victomtesse de Lauthonnye, great-grandmother of Eugène, Louis and Bertrand de Sartiges
Original canvas (faded mark on reverse)
Signed and dated lower left "Vaudechamp / 1827"; inscribed on a label on the reverse "Vicomtesse de Lauthonnye / née Levassor de / Bonneterre / arrière Gd mère d'Eugène, / de Louis et de Bertrand de / Sartiges".
65.5 x 54 cm
Old restorations and accidents
Exhibition:
Probably Salon of 1827, n°1025 (Portrait of a woman).
A former student of Girodet-Trioson and the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Jean-Joseph Vaudechamp exhibited at the Salon for nearly thirty years from 1817 to 1848, mainly portraits. From 1831 to 1839, he spent the winter months in the "French Quarter" of New Orleans, where he quickly became the fashionable portraitist of the city's bourgeoisie, from plantation owners to cotton and sugar merchants, eager to commemorate their social success by commissioning him to paint their effigies. His neoclassical style, tinged with romanticism, was the inspiration for many painters in the region. As early as 1834, William Dunlap reported that Vaudechamp earned an astonishing $30,000 during his first three seasons in Louisiana. A monograph has recently been dedicated to him (William Keyse Rudolph, "Vaudechamp in New Orleans", Historic New Orleans Collection, 2007).
Provenance: Château du Perthuis.
Note: After Blanche de Triqueti's death in 1886, Edward Lee Childe remarried Marie Elisabeth de Sartiges, daughter of Count and Ambassador Eugène de Sartiges. The Childe family lived a social life, frequenting the European aristocracy, but curiously remained attached to Château du Perthuis and to the memory of the Triqueti family. They kept the estate as Blanche had laid it out in 1883, and after Marie's death in 1944, the château remained the property of the family, who cultivated its memory.
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