Skip to Content

Charles-Nicolas Cochin (Paris 1715-1790)
- King Louis XIV and the Dauphin crowned by Glory and Immortality, and acclaimed from below by the Sciences, the Arts and the French People led by Minerva

Contemporary, modern and old century works of art at auction for buyers and collectors at Christie’s auction house

View, register and bid for sales

Charles-Nicolas Cochin (Paris 1715-1790)
King Louis XIV and the Dauphin crowned by Glory and Immortality, and acclaimed from below by the Sciences, the Arts and the French People led by Minerva
Estimate
(Set Currency)
    £2,000 - £3,000
  • ($3,038 - $4,557)

Sale Information

Sale 7918
Living with Design: The Collections of Walter Lees and Mr NC.
16 July 2010
London, King Street

Buy Catalog





Lot Description

Charles-Nicolas Cochin (Paris 1715-1790)
King Louis XIV and the Dauphin crowned by Glory and Immortality, and acclaimed from below by the Sciences, the Arts and the French People led by Minerva
black chalk, pen and black ink, grey wash, black ink framing lines
7 3/8 x 5 7/8 in. (18.8 x 14.6 cm.)

Lot Condition Report
I confirm that I have read this Important Notice and agree to its terms.
View Condition Report
Provenance

C.-A. Joubert, 1748; his sale, Paris, 15 April 1776, one of 286 drawings.
Acquired from Scheffer Galleries.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 14 April 1992, lot 158.

Literature

C.-A. Jombert, Catalogue de l'oeuvre de C.-N. Cochin Fils, Paris, 1770, p. 73, no. 193.
C. Michel, Charles-Nicolas Cochin et le livre illustré au XVIIIe siècle, Paris, 1987, no. 84a.

Lot Notes

Intended to serve as a frontispiece to the third edition of Président Hénault's sumptuous Nouvel Arbrégé Chronologique de l'Histoire de France contenant les évênements de notre histoire depuis Clovis jusqu'à la mort de Louis XIV (1749), this composition was never actually engraved. Charles-Antoine Jombert, to whose sale it can be traced, was an early patron of Cochin and owned a large number of the artist's drawings, which he described at length in his 1770 catalogue (op. cit.).

Department Information
Artist/Maker/Author Information
Keywords
Related Features