Alexandre-François Desportes (Champigneulles, 1661-1743, Paris) Study of an oystercatcher Marouflé paper on panel. Height 31.5 cm, width 43 cm. Without frame. Provenance : - acquired from Marc Blondeau in 1999. - Arnaud de Talancé de la Barre estate. A late 17th-early 18th century painting by Alexandre-François Desportes depicting an Eurasian oystercatcher . Oil on paper on pannel. Probably the oil on paper mentioned in the artist's catalog raisonné as being in a private collection and derived from a painting by Nicasius Bernaerts ( G. de Lastic, P. Jacky, "Desportes, Catalogue raisonné", p 11, P 17, not reproduced). A related drawing of the same bird, a seagull, executed in black stone and wash, is also listed ( op. cit., p. 254, D 62, reproduced). Bernaerts' frieze painting, now in the Musée de Gien, originally adorned the menagerie pavilion at Versailles (see cat. Expo. "Les animaux du roi", Versailles, 2021, p. 23 fig.2).
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