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PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN

FRENCH, 1810-1860
THE FALCON HUNT

THE FALCON HUNT

measurements
108 by 144 in.

alternate measurements
274 by 366 cm

signed Alfred de Dreux (lower right)

oil on canvas

The authenticity of this work has been confirmed by Brame et Lorenceau.

PROVENANCE

Le comte Charles Lehon and La comtesse Fanny Lehon, née Mosselman, Paris (acquired together with The Departure for the Hunt in 1852)
Collection of Le Grand Hôtel, Paris (together with The Departure for the Hunt in 1862)
Sale: Couturier & Nicolay, Musée Galliéra, Paris, December 2, 1975, lot 44 (together with The Departure for the Hunt)
Colnaghi Gallery, London
Acquired from the above by the present owner circa 1978

EXHIBITED

Paris, Salon, 1846, no. 483 (as Chasse au vol sous Charles VII)

LITERATURE

A.H. Delaunay, Catalogue complet du Salon de 1846, Paris, 1846, p. 33
Jeanne Doin, "Alfred de Dreux," Gazette des Beaux-Arts, Paris, vol. 63, October 1921, p. 246
David Kelley, Baudelaire, Salon de 1846, Oxford, 1975, pp. 162-63, 223, engraving illustrated no. 46
Alfred de Dreux, 1810-1860 : peintures, dessins, aquarelles, lithographies, exh. cat., Paris, 1988, p. XIII
Marie-Christine Renauld, Alfred de Dreux, le peintre du cheval, Lousanne, 1988, p. 16
Marie-Christine Renauld, Alfred de Dreux, le Cheval, passion d'un dandy parisien, Paris, 1997, pp. 47, 67, 161, illustrated p. 50