Alexandre-François DESPORTES
(Champigneulle 1661- Paris 1743)
Partridge, woodcock, basket of peaches and plums and apricots on an entablature
Pheasant, partridge, apricots in an imari bowl and figs on an entablature
Pair of paintings signed and dated lower right for the first and left for the second: "Desportes / 1731".
79,8 x 61,8 cm.
(Old restorations).
Provenance : Maurice Ségoura Gallery, Biennale des Antiquaires, 1994, private collection. Acquired from the latter by the parents of the present owners.
Bibliography : Pierre Jacky, Desportes, Catalogue raisonné, Saint-Rémi-En-l'Eau, 2010, page 206, n°P746 and n°P 747, reproduced.
In these paintings, Desportes repeats, with variations, a pair created four years earlier, in 1727, and then acquired by Victor-Amédée II, Duke of Savoy and King of Sardinia for the Royal Palace in Turin, now kept at the Galeria Sabauda in Turin (100 x 79 cm each).
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