Charles Ferdinand d’Artois, Duc de Berry (1778-1820) shooting an Eagle in the Forest of Fontainebleau
Charles-Louis-François Quinart (Valenciennes 1788 – Paris 1848) and Hippolyte Lecomte (Puiseaux 1781 – Paris 1857)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1818 - 1819 (exh at Paris Salon)
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
629 x 787 mm
Place of origin
France
Order this imageCollection
Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
NT 207837
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Charles Ferdinand d’Artois, Duc de Berry (1778-1820) shooting an Eagle in the Forest of Fontainebleau by Charles-Louis-François Quinart (Valenciennes 1788 – Paris 1848) and Hippolyte Lecomte (Puiseaux 1781 – Paris 1857), signed and dated, bottom mid-left, Quinart 1818. Exhibited in the Salon of 1819, and included in the duchesse de Berry's celebrated collection of contemporary French art. Lecomte painted the figure of the duc de Berry (who was to be assassinated in 1820); and the eagle itself, victim of a lucky shot, was preserved at Bagatelle, Paris, according to the text accompanying the lithograph after this painting.
Provenance
The Duchess of Berry; Bourbon-Massimo sale, Sotheby's, 20 July 1938, lot 31: bought Bernard for Captain Bambridge; bequeathed by Elsie Kipling, Mrs George Bambridge (1896 - 1976), daughter of Rudyard Kipling, to the National Trust together with Wimpole Hall, all its contents and an estate of 3,000 acres
Makers and roles
Charles-Louis-François Quinart (Valenciennes 1788 – Paris 1848) and Hippolyte Lecomte (Puiseaux 1781 – Paris 1857), artist Hippolyte Lecomte (Puiseaux 1781 – Paris 1857), artist Charles-Louis-François Quinart (Valenciennes 1788 – Paris 1848), artist