Lot n° 224
Estimation :
600 - 800
EUR
Result with fees
Result
: 845EUR
Jean-Louis DUCIS (1775–1847), studio of - Lot 224
Jean-Louis DUCIS (1775–1847), studio of
Bianca Cappello
Oil on canvas.
H_45.5 cm W_37 cm
Our painting is based on the lost composition of a slightly larger version of Jean-Louis Ducis’s painting exhibited at the 1824 Salon. A student of David, he was also the nephew of the playwright Jean François Ducis and married the sister of the famous actor François Joseph Talma.
His painting was firmly focused on portraiture and troubadour scenes, which were particularly popular at the time, as evidenced by Empress Joséphine’s purchases from the painter Fleury Richard, another student of David. Painted for the 1824 Salon, the painting is described in the catalog as follows: “This Venetian noblewoman, upon leaving her father’s house to go to a nighttime rendezvous, had taken care to leave a side door ajar, through which she could enter without being seen. A neighbor, passing by this door, hastened to close it. Young Bianca returns to her father’s house, accompanied by her lover, who brings her back in a rowboat; but what grief and astonishment she feels upon finding that fateful door—through which she had hoped to conceal her transgression—closed. Her young lover takes advantage of this situation to persuade her to flee. That closed door has sealed her fate forever.”
Our painting, likely created in the artist’s studio, is the known image of this Salon painting, which once formed a pair with *Bianca Cappello and Her Lover Fleeing to Florence Through the Apennines*, now in the collection of the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Lyon.
Expert: Artéon Gallery
Expert: Quentin BONNEFOY - ARTÉON Gallery
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