François SABLET (Morges 1745-Nantes 1819) Presumed... Lot 45

François SABLET (Morges 1745-Nantes 1819) Presumed portrait of a member of the Crucy family Original canvas Signed lower left: "Sablet Height : 24 cm 24 cm ; Width : 20 cm In the background, we can see one of the shipyards of the Crucy brothers' family shipbuilding business, located in the east of the city. Crucy brothers, located in the Loire estuary and serving the Navy, in Paimboeuf in particular. Napoleon visited them on 10 August 1808. The three Crucy brothers, Mathurin, Louis and Antoine and the two Sablet brothers were in close contact throughout their lives. throughout their lives. They had become friends in Rome from 1779-1780. Jacques Sablet painted the "Portrait of Louis Crucy at the Paimboeuf shipyards" (La Baule, private collection). Later, François Sablet will represent '' Mathurin Crucy in an interior '' in 1815 (Nantes, family collection of the descendants of collection of the descendants of Mathurin Crucy). Our portrait could represent Louis Crucy. Expert : Cabinet Éric Turquin