Nicolas Antoine Taunay
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(Paris 1755-1830)
A landscape at a lake with a stone bridge and a villa in an ancient style, signed and dated N. A. Taunay 1807, gouache on paper, laid down on cardboard, 29 x 36 cm, framed, (Hu)
When he was 13 years old Nicolas Antoine Taunay entered the studio of Nicolas-Bernard Lepicié and later studied with Nicolas-Guy Brenet and Francesco Giuseppe Casanova. Taunay specialized in painting landscapes and executed several landscape studies in the forests of St. Germain und Fontainebleau. In 1784 he was granted a stipend and lived in Rome for three years; from 1787 on he regularly exhibited at the Salon. In 1805 the artist painted scenes of Napoleon’s campaigns in Germany, in 1806/07 he was active for the porcelain manufacture in Sèvres. In 1821 he sojourned in Brazil within a small artists’ community and participated in the transformation of the local Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Rio de Janeiro into an Academy.
Specialist: Dr. Brigitte Huck
Dr. Brigitte Huck
+43-1-515 60-378
19c.paintings@dorotheum.at
22.04.2021 - 15:31
- Estimate:
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EUR 1,800.- to EUR 2,500.-
- Starting bid:
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EUR 1,000.-
Nicolas Antoine Taunay
(Paris 1755-1830)
A landscape at a lake with a stone bridge and a villa in an ancient style, signed and dated N. A. Taunay 1807, gouache on paper, laid down on cardboard, 29 x 36 cm, framed, (Hu)
When he was 13 years old Nicolas Antoine Taunay entered the studio of Nicolas-Bernard Lepicié and later studied with Nicolas-Guy Brenet and Francesco Giuseppe Casanova. Taunay specialized in painting landscapes and executed several landscape studies in the forests of St. Germain und Fontainebleau. In 1784 he was granted a stipend and lived in Rome for three years; from 1787 on he regularly exhibited at the Salon. In 1805 the artist painted scenes of Napoleon’s campaigns in Germany, in 1806/07 he was active for the porcelain manufacture in Sèvres. In 1821 he sojourned in Brazil within a small artists’ community and participated in the transformation of the local Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Rio de Janeiro into an Academy.
Specialist: Dr. Brigitte Huck
Dr. Brigitte Huck
+43-1-515 60-378
19c.paintings@dorotheum.at
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Auction: | Master Drawings, Prints before 1900, Watercolours, Miniatures |
Auction type: | Online auction |
Date: | 22.04.2021 - 15:31 |
Location: | Vienna | Palais Dorotheum |
Exhibition: | online |