Jean-Pierre Saint-Ours
The Olympic Games
Lot Closed
December 16, 03:01 PM GMT
Estimate
1,500 - 2,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Jean-Pierre Saint-Ours
Geneva 1752 - 1809
The Olympic Games
oil on panel
unframed: 27.3 x 45.4 cm.;10¾ x 17⅞ in.;
framed: 42.2 x 56.8 cm.; 16⅝ x 22⅜ in.
Private collection, Oxford, by April 1983 (according to a label on the reverse);
Anonymous sale, London, Bonhams Knightsbridge, 25 October 2017, lot 253 (as attributed to Jean Pierre Saint-Ours).
This oil sketch is a preparatory work for The Olympic Games by Jean Pierre Saint-Ours in the Musée d'Art et d'Histoire, Geneva.1 The present work differs from 𒁃the finished painting, most notably in the figure group in the centre, which is replaced by two nude athletes in the final composition. The large scale of the finished painting, which measures 226 x 407 cm., would suggest that Saint-Ours almost certainly experimented with a number of preparatory drawings and sketches before establishing his final composition.
The present work will be🅷 iꦆncluded in the forthcoming catalogue raisonné of works by Jean Pierre Saint-Ours.
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