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François Lemoyne

Saint Luigi Gonzaga in Glory

Estimate

15,000 - 25,000 USD

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François Lemoyne

(Paris 1688 - 1737)

Saint Luigi Gonzaga in Glory


Black chalk, within brown ink framing lines;

bears old attribution in brown ink, lower left: Le Moine

355 by 207 mm; 14 by 8⅛ in.

John Fitchett Marsh (1818-1880), Warrington (L.1455);

sale, Stockholm, Bukowskis, 26 May 1999, lot 360;

with Thomas Le Claire Kunsthandel, Hamburg,

where acquired by Diane A. Nixon

F. Souchal, French Sculptors of the 17th & 18th Centuries, The Reign of Louis XV, Oxford 1981, vol. 2, pp. 281-2;

J.-L. Bordeaux, François Le Moyne (1688-1737). Catalogue raisonné, new findings and legacy, Milan 2024, pp. 113-14, no. D. 85, reproduced