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Object details

TitleLa Charrette Embourbée
Technique and supportOil on canvas transferred from panel
Dimensions86.8 x 125.1

Collection and provenance

CollectionSchorr Collection, London
Provenance
  • (?) Cardinal Mazarin, 1661 (1286);
  • (?) by descent to Philippe Julien Mancini, Duc de Nevers, and/or Hortense Mancini, Duchesse de Mazarin;
  • (?) John Law 1719/1720, who purchased the Hôtel Mazarin/Tubeuf (1720);
  • Léon de Madaillan de Lesparre, Marquis de Lassay, 1720/1725;
  • By descent to Reine, Marquise de Lassay, 1750;
  • By descent to Jean Roger de La Guiche, Comte de la Guiche, 1763;
  • His sale held at the Hôtel de la Guiche, 4-6 March 1771 (16), where purchased by Charles-Louis Clérisseau for Simon Harcourt, 1st Earl Harcourt;
  • By descent, until offered at Christies 11 June 1948 when bought back by the family, then by descent;
  • Sotheby’s London, 4 December 2014.

Literature

DESCAMPS 1753, p. 316
NUNEHAM-COURTENAY 1783, p. 8
WALPOLE 1786, p. 145
OXFORD 1795, p. 126
NUNEHAM-COURTENAY 1806, pp. 21-2
BREWER 1813, p. 27
Neale 1820, n.p.
WAAGEN 1857, p. 349
HARCOURT 1880, p. 230, no. 4
ROOSES 1890, p. 370, no. 1179
GLÜCK 1940, p. 56
ADLER 1982, pp. 80-2, no. 19
MULHERRON 2020, pp. 63-71
MULHERRON 2023, pp. 8-16

Panel reverse

Cradled or uncradledTransferred to canvas