22/1/25 – Acquisition – Paris, Louvre Museum – Édouard Napoléon César Edmond Mortier (1883-1946), 5th and last Duke of Treviso, was obviously a man of taste. Although he remains best known today as co-founder of La Sauvegarde de l'Art français alongside his cousin Aliette de Maillé, who succeeded him as president of this essential association, still as active a century later, he was also a very eminent collector and the catalog of his sale – at the Charpentier gallery – in May 1938 gives a striking insight into his eclectic and refined passions. If the French 19th century takes the lion's share, ancient art was not left out and its name still remains evocative of a very good pedigree in a sales catalog. Christie's made no mistake in offering a superb painting by Giambattista Tiepolo in London last month (ill. 1) whose reappearance immediately created the event.
- 1. Giambattista Tiepolo (1696-1770)
Guilty Punch
Oil on canvas – 101.6 x 164.5 cm
Paris, Louvre Museum
Photo : Christie’s
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See the image on his page
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Remaining in its original state, this almost unpublished painting had not been seen since 1938, when it was presented at the Art Institute of Chicago for a Tiepolo exhibition alongside its counterpart also on loan from the Duke of Treviso, as recalled the Bulletin of the Great American Museum, fortunately available online. These paintings had previously passed to Albert Besnard, who probably acquired them between 1913 and 1921, when he directed the French Academy in Rome. The pendant, Polichinelle's kitchenwas seen for the last time in France in 1998-1999 on the occasion of the Giambattista Tiepolo exhibition at the Petit Palais, curated by Stéphane Loire and José de Los Llanos, who devoted a rich notice to him where we have drawn from the only available photograph of this beautiful painting (ill. 2) as well as many elements…
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