Sight of Marseilles: Tournament and festival on water

Sight of Marseilles: Tournament and festival on water are a table of Charles Eschard exposed to the Salon of 1791, n° 50.

It is an oil on fabric of 82,5 by 12,5 cm. Work reappeared in 1852, at the time of an auction, under an attribution with Joseph Vernet, it was preserved at New York with the Metropolitan Museum off Art, then was sold by this museum he was necessary to wait the year 1999 so that this table finds its true identity.

History

Sale C. Corridi, London, Christie' S, November 27th, 1852, n° 44, like Joseph Vernet: has festival At Marseilles, with numerous figures .
Collection Patrick Anderson.
Collection of Metropolitan Museum off Art of 1955 to 1990.
Auction in Lille, Main Draper and Co, October 24th, 1999, n° 242 like Charles Eschard, allocated 1.380.000 Francs.

Exposures

Living room of 1791, n° 50.
Museum of Dayton, 1951.
New York, Metropolitan museum off Art, The Eighteenth Century Woman , page 53,1981-1982.
New York, Gallery Stair Sainty Matthiesen, Eighty Years off French Painting from Louis XVII to the Second Republic , n° 7,1991.

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