Charles Auguste Émile Carolus-Duran
(Lille 1837–1917 Paris)
Obsession, signed, dated Carolus-Duran 1898, oil on thick cardboard, 81.5 x 60 cm, framed
Provenance:
Collection of Edouard-Camille Bouteron (1858–1918);
thence by descent – Private collection, France;
Sale, Christie’s, Paris, 1 April 2014, lot 71;
European Private Collection.
Exhibited:
Paris, Societé National des Beaux-Arts, Salon, 1898, no. 239.
Catalogued and illustrated in:
A. de Murville, Les Salons de 1898: La peinture, revue de l’Art ancien et moderne, V. III, no. 5, 10 May 1898, pp. 427 and 432.
This painting depicts a half-dressed woman praying to Christ under a moonlit sky whilst assailed by carnal visions. The artist references a composition from 1872, now in the Musée d’Art et d’Industrie in Roubaix, in which the woman is dressed as a nun. A photograph of the painting was circulated as soon as it was exhibited in 1898 (Paris, Bibliothèque national de France, Département des Estampes et de la Photographie).
Specialist: Gautier Gendebien
Gautier Gendebien
+39-334-777 1603
Gautier.Gendebien@dorotheum.it
24.10.2023 - 18:00
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EUR 10,000.- to EUR 15,000.-
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Charles Auguste Émile Carolus-Duran
(Lille 1837–1917 Paris)
Obsession, signed, dated Carolus-Duran 1898, oil on thick cardboard, 81.5 x 60 cm, framed
Provenance:
Collection of Edouard-Camille Bouteron (1858–1918);
thence by descent – Private collection, France;
Sale, Christie’s, Paris, 1 April 2014, lot 71;
European Private Collection.
Exhibited:
Paris, Societé National des Beaux-Arts, Salon, 1898, no. 239.
Catalogued and illustrated in:
A. de Murville, Les Salons de 1898: La peinture, revue de l’Art ancien et moderne, V. III, no. 5, 10 May 1898, pp. 427 and 432.
This painting depicts a half-dressed woman praying to Christ under a moonlit sky whilst assailed by carnal visions. The artist references a composition from 1872, now in the Musée d’Art et d’Industrie in Roubaix, in which the woman is dressed as a nun. A photograph of the painting was circulated as soon as it was exhibited in 1898 (Paris, Bibliothèque national de France, Département des Estampes et de la Photographie).
Specialist: Gautier Gendebien
Gautier Gendebien
+39-334-777 1603
Gautier.Gendebien@dorotheum.it
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| Auction: | 19th Century Paintings |
| Auction type: | Saleroom auction with Live Bidding |
| Date: | 24.10.2023 - 18:00 |
| Location: | Vienna | Palais Dorotheum |
| Exhibition: | 14.10. - 24.10.2023 |