The surroundings of Caudebec in Normandy China, produced for the European market, around 1770. - image-1
The surroundings of Caudebec in Normandy China, produced for the European market, around 1770. - image-2
The surroundings of Caudebec in Normandy China, produced for the European market, around 1770. - image-1The surroundings of Caudebec in Normandy China, produced for the European market, around 1770. - image-2

Lot 56 Dα

The surroundings of Caudebec in Normandy China, produced for the European market, around 1770.

Auction 1237 - overview Cologne
16.11.2023, 10:00 - Stained Glass from four Centuries
Estimate: 1.500 € - 4.000 €
Result: 1.638 € (incl. premium)
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The surroundings of Caudebec in Normandy
China, produced for the European market, around 1770.

Glass panel painted on reverse in transparent pigments. Minor localised losses of pigment to the margins. Gilded softwood frame, H 34, W 49.2 cm.

This finely rendered reverse glass painting shows a view of Caudebec overlooking the Seine. The depiction follows the sheet "Première vue des environs de Caudebec en Normandie" by the Breton engraver Yves Marie Le Gouaz (1742 - 1816) after Jakob Philipp Hackert (1737 - 1807).

The counterpart "Seconde vue des environs de Caudebec en Normandie" is in the Vitromusée Romont/Switzerland.

Both reverse glass paintings have sliders on the back, typical of Chinese objects, with which the glass can be easily unframed.

Provenance

Auctioned by Fischer, Lucerne, November 2010.

Literature

Illus. in Steiner, Landschaft in der Hinterglasmalerei des 18. Jahrhunderts, Berlin-Munich 2013, illus. 84.
Cf. Ryser, Verzauberte Bilder. Die Kunst der Malerei hinter Glas, Munich 1991, p. 227.

Exhibitions

2013 Oberammergau Museum.