(1715-1800)
Animated landscape
18th century
Watercolor and gouache on ivory, rectangular 8.3 X 5.5 cm.
Superb original frame in chiseled and gilded bronze, 10.5 x 10.5 cm.
An inscription on the back of the miniature
Very beautiful landscape animated by DESFRICHES Aignan-Thomas (1715-1800), his works painted on ivory are very rare. the miniature is preserved in a period gilded and chiseled bronze frame.
Desfriches creates landscape drawings with precision and
wonderful delicacy.
Very good original condition, flat glass, traces of dirt.
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Peter Bower, ‘Aignan-Thomas Desfriches (1715-1800) and his Papier a Tablette and a Later Development of His Technique’, The Quarterly:
Micheline Cuénin, M. Desfriches d'Orléans, Les amis des musées d'Orléans, 1997 (ISBN 2-9511213-0-X) Document utilisé pour la rédaction de l’article;
Paul Ratouis de Limay (préf. Charles-Philippe de Chennevières), Un amateur orléanais au XVIIIe siècle, Aignan-Thomas Desfriches (1715-1800) : sa vie, son œuvre, ses collections, sa correspondance, Paris, Honoré Champion, 1907;
Paul Ratouis de Limay, « Un inventaire de la collection de l'amateur orléanais Aignan-Thomas Desfriches », Archives de l'art français, 1916, nouv. période, n° VIII, p. 261-270;
Paul Ratouis de Limay, « Quelques lettres inédites de Charles-Nicolas Cochin fils à Aignan-Thomas Desfriches », Bulletin de la Société de l'Histoire de l'Art français, 1950, p. 143-149.
MUSEUMS :
Louvre, M.B.A. d'Orléans.
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