Joseph-Marie Vien
Women In Classical Dress Attending A Young Bride
Estimate: 400.000 - 600.000 USD
Price realised: 855.000 USD
Price realised: 855.000 USD
Description
Joseph-Marie Vien
MONTPELLIER 1716 - 1809 PARIS
WOMEN IN CLASSICAL DRESS ATTENDING A YOUNG BRIDE
signed and dated upper right underneath the medallion: .jos.m.Vien. Romes 1777.
oil on canvas
39 3/8 by 53 1/8 in.; 100 by 135 cm.
Commissioned in 1776 by Charles Claude de Flahaut (1730–1809), Comte d'Angiviller, Directeur des Bâtiments du Roi (who emigrated during the Revolution and his collection seized); | Antoine-Gabriel-Aimé Jourdan; | His sale, Paris, 4 April 1803, lot 56; | There acquired by the sales expert, Paillet, probably for the benefit of Abraham Fontanel (1750-1819); | Galerie Fontanel-Matet, Montpellier; | From whom acquired by Jacques-Joseph de Boussa
MONTPELLIER 1716 - 1809 PARIS
WOMEN IN CLASSICAL DRESS ATTENDING A YOUNG BRIDE
signed and dated upper right underneath the medallion: .jos.m.Vien. Romes 1777.
oil on canvas
39 3/8 by 53 1/8 in.; 100 by 135 cm.
Commissioned in 1776 by Charles Claude de Flahaut (1730–1809), Comte d'Angiviller, Directeur des Bâtiments du Roi (who emigrated during the Revolution and his collection seized); | Antoine-Gabriel-Aimé Jourdan; | His sale, Paris, 4 April 1803, lot 56; | There acquired by the sales expert, Paillet, probably for the benefit of Abraham Fontanel (1750-1819); | Galerie Fontanel-Matet, Montpellier; | From whom acquired by Jacques-Joseph de Boussa
A top price for Joseph-Marie Vien
The work Women In Classical Dress Attending A Young Bride by Joseph-Marie Vien was auctioned at Sothebys in New York in February 2018. It achieved a price of USD 855,000.00 (€ 700,188.35), exceeding the upper end of the estimate range by 43%. With this result, Women In Classical Dress Attending A Young Bride is even the most expensive work of art by Joseph-Marie Vien that we have observed at auctions so far.
Ein Spitzenpreis für Joseph-Marie Vien
Die Arbeit Women In Classical Dress Attending A Young Bride von Joseph-Marie Vien kam im Februar 2018 bei Sothebys in New York zur Auktion. Sie erzielte dabei einen Preis von USD 855.000,00 (€ 700.188,35) und übertraf damit das obere Ende der Schätzpreisspanne um 43%. Mit diesem Ergebnis ist Women In Classical Dress Attending A Young Bride sogar das teuerste Kunstwerk von Joseph-Marie Vien, das wir bisher bei Auktionen beobachtet haben.
Joseph-Marie Vien - Auction history
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