Eustache Le Sueur
An Allegory Of Poetry
Estimate: 800.000 - 1.200.000 USD
Price realised: 970.000 USD
Price realised: 970.000 USD
Description
Eustache Le Sueur
PARIS 1616 - 1655
AN ALLEGORY OF POETRY
oil on canvas
51 1/8 by 38 3/8 in.; 130 by 97.5 cm.
Mme. de Fontaine, Hôtel Lambert, 1739 (mentioned in the sale contract drawn up on 31 March 1739 between Madame de Fontaine, her brother-in-law Claude Dupin and Florent Claude, Marquis du Châtelet and his wife, Gabrielle Emilie de Breteuil); | Marin Delahaye, owner of Hôtel Lambert from 1745 to 1753 (inventory catalogue 13 October 1753, no. 1378); | By whom given to his brother Marc-Antoine Delahaye de Bazinville (mentioned in Marin Delahaye's
PARIS 1616 - 1655
AN ALLEGORY OF POETRY
oil on canvas
51 1/8 by 38 3/8 in.; 130 by 97.5 cm.
Mme. de Fontaine, Hôtel Lambert, 1739 (mentioned in the sale contract drawn up on 31 March 1739 between Madame de Fontaine, her brother-in-law Claude Dupin and Florent Claude, Marquis du Châtelet and his wife, Gabrielle Emilie de Breteuil); | Marin Delahaye, owner of Hôtel Lambert from 1745 to 1753 (inventory catalogue 13 October 1753, no. 1378); | By whom given to his brother Marc-Antoine Delahaye de Bazinville (mentioned in Marin Delahaye's
A top price for Eustache Le Sueur - as previously expected
The work An Allegory Of Poetry by Eustache Le Sueur was sold in the Master Paintings Evening Sale auction at Sothebys in New York in January 2016. The price achieved of USD 970,000.00 (€ 895,494.83) was within expectations - the estimate range had previously been set by the auction house as USD 800,000.00 – 1,200,000.00. Even if this result could not surprise positively, An Allegory Of Poetry is the most expensive artwork by Eustache Le Sueur that we have observed at auctions so far.
Ein Spitzenpreis mit Ansage
Die Arbeit An Allegory Of Poetry von Eustache Le Sueur wurde im Januar 2016 in der Auktion Master Paintings Evening Sale bei Sothebys in New York versteigert. Der dabei erzielte Preis von USD 970.000,00 (€ 895.494,83) lag im Rahmen der Erwartungen – die Schätzpreisspanne war von dem Auktionshaus zuvor mit USD 800.000,00 – 1.200.000,00 angegeben worden. Auch wenn das Ergebnis damit nicht positiv überraschen konnte, ist An Allegory Of Poetry das teuerste Kunstwerk von Eustache Le Sueur, das wir bisher bei Auktionen beobachtet haben.
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