Nicolas-Antoine Taunay
Mose🐼s striking the rock and drawing water for the Israelites
Lot Closed
December 16, 02:57 PM GMT
Estimate
2,000 - 3,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Nicolas-Antoine Taunay
Paris 1755 - 1830
Moses striking the rock and drawing water for the Israelites
oil on canvas
unframed: 32 x 40.5 cm.; 12⅝ x 16 in.;
framed: 41.6 x 49.8 cm.; 16⅜ x 19⅝ in.
Probably Robert Léopold Leprince (1800–1847), Paris;
Probably his sale, Paris, Schroth, Bonnefons, Tournaire, 27 March 1835, lot 15;
Probably Alexandre du Sommerard (1779–1842), Paris;
Probably his sale, Paris, Paillet, Bonnefons, 11 December 1843, lot 145.
Probably his sale, Paris, Schroth, Bonnefons, Tournaire, 27 March 1835, lot 15;
Probably Alexandre du Sommerard (1779–1842), Paris;
Probably his sale, Paris, Paillet, Bonnefons, 11 December 1843, lot 145.
Probably C. Lebrun-Jouve, Nicolas-Antoine Taunay, 1755–1830, Paris 2002, p. 309, no. 762 (as location unknown).
This is probably the painting that was in the Léopold Leprince collection, published in Claudine Lebrun-Jouve's catalogue raisonné of works by Nicolas-Antoine Taunay. Another painting of the same subject, on a larger scale (location unknown), is listed as having been exhibited at the Paris Salon in 1824 and 1827.1
1 Lebrun-Jouve 2002, p. 309, no. 761.