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Philippe Mercier

Berlin 1689 – 1760 London

The Jester - Jeune garçon en costume de folie. Circa 1735/40

Oil on canvas. 77 × 65 cm (30 ⅜ × 25 ⅝ in.).
This picture shows the following artwork: Philippe Mercier. The Jester - Jeune garçon en costume de folie. Circa 1735/40.

Estimate:

EUR 8,000

 

- 10,000

USD 9,100

 

- 11,400

Sold for:

22,500 EUR (incl. premium)

Spring Auctions 2016

ORANGERIE Selected Objects, Thursday, 02.06.2016

Information

Oil on canvas. 77 × 65 cm (30 ⅜ × 25 ⅝ in.). Catalogue raisonné: John Ingamells and Robert Raines: A Catalogue of the Paintings, Drawings and Etchings of Philip Mercier; in: The Forty-Sixth Volume of the Walpole Society (1976–1978), p.45, cat. no. 172 („Location unknown"), ill. 7c. Framed

In a Munich frame, circa 1740 – historical frame loaned by Olaf Lemke, Berlin.

Whitehill House Collection, Midlothian, Scotland / presumably Robert George Wardlaw-Ramsay (1852–1921), Whitehill / Arthur Balcarres Wardlaw-Ramsay (1887-1956), Whitehill / 1924 Galerie Leggatt, London / 1991 private collection, south-west Germany / 1999 private collection, Berlin / private collection, northern Germany

Robert Rey: Quelques satellites de Watteau. Antoine Pesne et Philippe Mercier, Paris 1931, p. 81, ill. 13 / Auction catalogue, Christie's, London, 12. December 1924, lot 134 (as Watteau) / Auction catalogue, Christie's, London, 15. November 1991, lot 38 / Auction Catalogue, Bonhams, London, 28. October 1993, lot 165 / Auction Catalogue, Lempertz, Cologne, 15. Mai 1999, lot 1096 / Philippa Gregory: Die Hofnärrin, Bergisch Gladbach 2007, cover illustration