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THE MÉNAGE DE PRESSIGNY
PANELS
panel with the coat of arms of the Ménage de Pressigny signed:
PARENT.
1779.;
panel with cipher MP signed and dated: A.
J. F.... 1779
wood, within their original ebonised and gilt wood and glass frames
each inscribed: DÉDIÉ A MONSIEUR MENAGE DE PRESSIGNY
AMATEUR DES SCIENCES ET BEAUX ARTS/ Par son tr
hum.
ser Parent pre.
ob. du Roi
panel with coat of arms with an open book inscribed:
HENRiADE/ CHANT
II.
/ ARGUMENT/ REINE/ LE CiE
/ COLIGNY/ FRANCE; and with two closed books with sp
nes respectively inscribed: JJ ROUSSA/ T.II and: POPE
T.I with medallions respectively inscribed: LUD XVI/ R
X CHR HENR
IIII
22in.
AUBERT-HENRI-JOSEPH PARENT (1753-1835)
FRENCH, PARIS, DATED 1779
LA
; and
eac
each
THE MÉNAGE DE PRESSIGNY PANELS
PROVENANCE
François Marie Ménage de Pressigny (circa 1733-1794);
private English collection, since circa 1930
RELATED LITERATURE
C.
Streeter, ‘Two Carved Reliefs by Aubert Parent’, in
Getty Museum Journal,
M.
Greenberg, The J.
Paul Getty Museum: Handbook of the
Collections.
Getty Publications, Los Angeles, 2007, p.
261, ill.
The J.
Paul
vol.
13, Los Angeles, 1985, pp.
53–66;
£ 150,000-250,000
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