Colombe, Goya, Cranach: Rarity Rewarded

Result EUR4,699,000

Published on 12 December 2022, by Anne Doridou-Heim

Auction on 29 November 2022 - 14:00 (CET) - Salle 1-7 - Hôtel Drouot - 75009

This collection of a Parisian aesthete who chose to remain anonymous attracted much attention and two high-level preemptions by the Louvre.

Michel Colombe (c. 1430-c. 1515), Loire studio, Virgin and Child, c. 1500-1510, terracotta,... Colombe, Goya, Cranach: Rarity Rewarded

Michel Colombe (c. 1430-c. 1515), Loire studio, Virgin and Child, c. 1500-1510, terracotta, h. 102 cm/40.16 in.
Result: €4,699,000

A Key Work The sale opened with a collection of 30 original drawings (27.5 x 19.8 cm/10.82 x 7.80 in) that Jean-Michel Moreau , called Moreau the Younger (1741-1814), made to illustrate Voltaire’s heroic-comic poem The Maid of Orleans (€215,900), which still has its old calfskin binding. Moreau abandoned the project after making 30 drawings of various, often very gallant, subjects, for the first five of the 18 chapters. A gouache, Vue de la place de la Concorde ( View of the Place de la Concorde ) (30 x 53 cm/11.81 x 20.86 in), by Lorraine artist Alexis-Nicolas Perignon (1726-1782), fetched €42,875 thanks…

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Collection of a great amateur and to various.

Tuesday 29 November 2022 - 14:00 (CET) - Live

Salle 1-7 - Hôtel Drouot - 75009 Paris

Auction Art Rémy Le Fur & Associés

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