Gabriel Jacques De Saint-Aubin - The wedding of Merope and Polyphonte

Gabriel Jacques De Saint-Aubin

The wedding of Merope and Polyphonte

Found at Il Ponte
Old Master Drawings and Engravings, Lot 139
23. OCT - 23. OCT 2018
Estimate: 24.000 - 26.000 EUR
Price realised: 220.000 EUR
Description
Charcoal, red chalk and wash hightened in white chalk on paper 337x502 mm.
Signed at lower left and inscribed on the verso
(defects on the borders)
Provenance
Christie's, 19 march 1975, lot 136 (according to the notes of the collector)
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Artwork auctioned at eight times the upper estimate price

When the work The wedding of Merope and Polyphonte by Gabriel-Jacques de Saint-Aubin was auctioned at Il Ponte in October 2018, the result exceeded expectations many times over. The upper estimate was set at - in retrospect quite modest - EUR 26,000.00 but the actual price achieved was more than eight times as high at EUR 220,000.00. Despite this good result, it is not the highest hammer price for an artwork by Gabriel-Jacques de Saint-Aubin; that achieved among the auctions we observed the lot L'Incendie De L'Hôtel-Dieu En 1772 sold at auction in March 2016 with the realized price of EUR 373,500.00.

Kunstwerk zum Achtfachen des oberen Schätzpreises versteigert

Als die Arbeit The wedding of Merope and Polyphonte von Gabriel-Jacques de Saint-Aubin im Oktober 2018 bei Il Ponte versteigert wurde, übertraf das Ergebnis die Erwartungen um ein Vielfaches. Der obere Schätzpreis war mit – rückwirkend betrachtet recht bescheidenen – EUR 26.000,00 angesetzt, der tatsächlich erzielte Preis hingegen war mit EUR 220.000,00 mehr als achtmal so hoch. Trotz des guten Ergebnisses ist dies nicht der höchste Zuschlag für ein Kunstwerk von Gabriel-Jacques de Saint-Aubin; den erzielte unter den von uns beobachteten Auktionen die Arbeit L'Incendie De L'Hôtel-Dieu En 1772 im März 2016 mit dem Hammerpreis von EUR 373.500,00.

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