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JEAN-BAPTISTE SANTERRE (MAGNY-EN-VEXIN, VAL-D'OISE 1651-1717 PARIS)
A young woman in a yellow robe with a letter, called La Menaceuse
signed and dated '[S]anterre / 1703' (lower right, on the letter)
oil on canvas
31 3/4 x 25 1/2 in. (80.6 x 64.7 cm.)
Provenance
Jean-Etienne Liotard, Geneva (1702-1789); his sale, Christie's, London, 16 April 1774, lot 13.
Gustave Mailand; his sale, Pillet, Paris, May 2-3, 1881, lot 114.
Jules Burat, Paris; (†) his sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 28-29 April 1885, lot 162, as 'Le Billet'.
Reginald Vaile, London, until 1903.
Anonymous sale; Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 24 June 1987, lot 8.
with P. & D. Colnaghi, Ltd, London and New York.
[Property of a Private Collector]; Christie's, New York, 18 May 1995, lot 49, where acquired by the present owner.
Literature
(Possibly) A.-J. Dézallier d'Argenville, Abrégé de la vie des plus fameux peintres, Paris, 1762, p. 262.
(Possibly) A. Potiquet, Jean-Baptiste Santerre Peintre: sa vie et son oeuvre, Paris, 1876, p. 10, as 'Femme en action de menacer ?'.
M.N. Benisovich, Liotard et sa collection de tableaux, Geneva, 1951, pp. 6-7.
E. Benezit, Dictionnaire des Peintres, Sculpteurs, Dessinateurs et Graveurs, VII, Paris, 1954, p. 513.
Burlington Magazine, CXXX, no. 1018, Jan. 1988, p. XXIV.
E. Coquery, Figures de la Passion, exhibition catalogue, Paris, 2001, p. 236, fig. 115, as 'La Menaceuse'.
C. Lesne and F. Waro, Jean Baptiste Santerre: 1651-1717, Magny-en-Vexin, 2011, pp. 63, 66 and 68, illustrated.
Exhibited
London, Great Malborough Street, Liotard Exhibition, 1773, no. 12.
Special notice
This lot is offered without reserve.