A Trompe l'Oeil Bas-relief Depicting Putti At A Country Festival In Grisaille

Piat Joseph Sauvage (workshop of). (1744 Tournai – 1818)

Title: A Trompe l'Oeil Bas-relief Depicting Putti At A Country Festival In Grisaille

Medium: Oil on canvas

Period circa 1780

Provenance: From a private French collection and thence a leading UK art dealership from which they were acquired as attributed to the painter in need of restoration. The painting has been professionally restored during 2023. We are offering the painting as workshop of the painter.

Overall size with the frame 160 cm x 100 cm x 4 cm with the painting itself measuring 138 cm x 78 cm

A superb, very large and highly decorative 18th century oil on canvas depiction of Putti at a fête champêtre "en grisaille" which had been attributed to Piat Joseph Sauvage (1744-1814) when we acquired it from a leading UK art dealer .We are offering it as workshop of the painter.

The painting was restored around 70-100 years after it painted by the Parisian studio of Paul Kiewert who founded the Maison Kiewert conservation studio in Paris in the 1850's. The original restoration citation note is still legible on the original stretcher bar on the verso (see photo's).

We acquired the painting on the basis of this attribution from a leading UK art dealership and on the understanding that the painting was in need of new and detailed restoration.

The new restoration of the painting was carried out by a professional art restoration specialist in 2023. See notes below. A transcription the restoration process will be sent to the buyer with the painting for future reference.

Piat Sauvage was a Belgian painter, member of the Académie Royale in 1781, who became famous for his trompe-l’œil works imitating sculpture. In the 1780s, he participated in the decoration of the interiors of the royal châteaux of Rambouillet and Versailles, creating paintings on several different media, and using materials such as marble, ivory, and porcelain.

Condition report:

The painting is In excellent restored condition. We commissioned the restoration of the painting last year over a three month period . The painting was professionally cleaned and restored and this included lining the originally canvas onto a new support using the methodology of mounting onto conservation board which is fully reversible by the conservator using a conservation grade reversible heat - activated adhesive. The painting had been framed within a museum quality new frame. The restoration citation will be provided to the buyer for future reference.

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Note:

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