[Jacques II BAILLY (1701-1768)]. Manuscript, Inventaire aprè - Lot 2

[Jacques II BAILLY (1701-1768)]. Manuscript, Inventaire après le décès de Sr Jacques Bailly Peintre du Roy et Garde des Tableaux de la Couronne, 1768; large 224p. fol. sewn notebook plus title, tax stamps. Interesting inventory after the painter's death, signed by notaries Girault and De Saint-Paul. Inventory drawn up at the request of his widow Marie-Cécile Guichon, "residing 'aux Galleries du Louvre'", their sons Jean Silvain Bailly [the astronomer and future Mayor of Paris], and Paulin Bailly, interpreter for the Foreign Office, and their son-in-law the banker Batbedat (Edmée's husband). The inventory, drawn up from November 28 to 10, 1768, comprises 233 entries numbered in the margin, before the statement of papers and denarii, including nos. 158 to 201 for paintings by Panini, Coypel, Desportes, Jouvenet, La Fosse, Rigault, Favanne, etc.; then nos. 202 to 233 for prints and drawings.