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Alexander Roslin

(1718-1793)
Estimate
300 000 - 400 000 SEK
26 800 - 35 700 EUR
28 300 - 37 700 USD
Hammer price
220 000 SEK
Purchasing info
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Johan Jinnerot
Stockholm
Johan Jinnerot
Specialist Art and Old master paintings
+46 (0)739 400 801
Alexander Roslin
(1718-1793)

"Cosme De Beaupoil, markis de S:t Aulaire" (1741-1822)

Signed P.t p. le Chev: Roslin and dated 1781. Canvas glued to panel, oval 77 x 63 cm. Contemporary gilded and bronzed frame.

Provenance

Originally in art dealer Nathanael Wildenstein's possessions, Paris.
Purchased from Mr Wildenstein by Carl U Palm 1913. (According to the invoice of 9 April 1913 in the Institut Tessin's archives),
There after sold to Carl Robert Lamm, Näsby, Upland, after sold at Bukowski auctions, auction 226, 28-29 September 1920, cat no 50, illustrated p 13th (Auction of Carl Robert Lamm)
Thereafter in the possessions of the factory owner Albert Sahlin, Eslöv,
Thereafter in the Ambassador Stig Sahlin's Collection, Copenhagen,
Subsequently by inheritance to the present owner.

Exhibitions

1921, cat no 103.
Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, "Fem stora gustavianer", 1943, cat no 118.
Malmö Museum, "Roslin-utställningen", 1962, cat no 65.
Galerie des Beaux-arts, Bordeaux, "La peinture francaise en Suède - Hommage à Roslin et à Wertmüller", 17 May - 15 Sep 1967, cat no 177.

Literature

Gazette des Beaux Arts, 1898, page 114.
Charles Roslin, "Alexander Roslin", (Revue de l'histoire de Versailles), 1913, page 105.
Gunnar W Luindberg, "Roslin - liv och verk", cat no 531, illustrated full page 152.