Circle of Jacques-Louis David (French, 1748-1825) "Portrait of Jean-Pierre Georges Maubach (1788-1862) and His Son", ca. 1835-1840 oil on canvas unsigned, partially titled in English on antique label en verso. Framed. 39-1/2" x 32-1/4", framed 44" x 36-1/2" Provenance: Sotheby's Arcade, New York, New York, Jan. 21, 2004, lot 141. Literature: Georg Biermann, "Ein wiedergefundenes Bild des Jacques Louis David", Der Cicerone. XXI (Dec. 23, 1929), pp. 667-669, illustrated as a work by David. Notes: Following the Bourbon Restoration in 1814, Jacques-Louis David the preeminent neoclassical artist of France and "court painter" to Napoleon, sought exile in Brussels, Belgium with fellow revolutionaries and Bonapartists, who voted for the execution of King Louis XVI. In Brussels, David probably encountered Jean-Pierre Maubach, a court of appeals attorney and proprietor of Le Vrai Republicain - a newspaper sympathetic to French refugees in exile that published the works of David's pupils in Brussels, including Sophie Fremiet, an ardent Bonapartist and wife of Francois Rude (sculptor of the Marseillaise facade on the Arc-de-Triomphe), and the Belgium born Francois-Joseph Navez. Given Maubach's age in the portrait, the painting was likely executed by one of David's pupils in the 1830s.
Circle of Jacques-Louis David (French, 1748-1825) "Portrait of Jean-Pierre Georges Maubach (1788-1862) and His Son", ca. 1835-1840 oil on canvas unsigned, partially titled in English on antique label en verso. Framed. 39-1/2" x 32-1/4", framed 44" x 36-1/2" Provenance: Sotheby's Arcade, New York, New York, Jan. 21, 2004, lot 141. Literature: Georg Biermann, "Ein wiedergefundenes Bild des Jacques Louis David", Der Cicerone. XXI (Dec. 23, 1929), pp. 667-669, illustrated as a work by David. Notes: Following the Bourbon Restoration in 1814, Jacques-Louis David the preeminent neoclassical artist of France and "court painter" to Napoleon, sought exile in Brussels, Belgium with fellow revolutionaries and Bonapartists, who voted for the execution of King Louis XVI. In Brussels, David probably encountered Jean-Pierre Maubach, a court of appeals attorney and proprietor of Le Vrai Republicain - a newspaper sympathetic to French refugees in exile that published the works of David's pupils in Brussels, including Sophie Fremiet, an ardent Bonapartist and wife of Francois Rude (sculptor of the Marseillaise facade on the Arc-de-Triomphe), and the Belgium born Francois-Joseph Navez. Given Maubach's age in the portrait, the painting was likely executed by one of David's pupils in the 1830s.
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