Lot Details
Lot 1058
Nicolas-Bernard Lepicie
French, 1735-1784
Le Depart du Braconnier (The Departure of the Poacher)
Remnants of a signature and date (ll)
Oil on board
12 3/4 x 9 1/2 inches (32.4 x 24.1 cm)
Provenance:
Private Collection, New York
With Stair Sainty Matthiesen, New York, circa 1985
Literature:
Cf. Philippe Gaston-Dreyfus, Catalogue raisonn' de l'oeuvre peint et dessis de Nicolas Bernard L'pici' (Paris, 1923), p. 83, no. 194, "Le Garde-chasse" (signed and dated 1780), and no. 195, "D'part d'un braconnier" (another version of the same composition, exhibited at the Salon of 1781, no. 22).
According to Gaston-Dreyfus, L'pici' commonly made replicas of his genre scenes. The catalogue raisonn' lists two autograph versions of this composition, both on canvas, one of which may be the example now in the collection of the Mus'e des Beaux-Arts et d'Arch'ologie Joseph D'chelette in Roanne, France. There is also a drawing of the same composition known (sale: Tajan, Paris, November 15, 2004, lot 103). Gaston-Dreyfus describes the central figure as "standing at the threshold of a barn, a gray coat over his green vest, his rifle under his arm, he gives his hand to a little boy, who is placing the man's hat on the head of a dog (debout sur le seuil d'un grange, un manteau gris couvrant sa veste verte, son fusil sous le bras, il donne la main a un petit garzon qui coiffe un chien du chapeau du garde)."
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