Alexandre-Gabriel DECAMPS ( 1803 - 1860) - Lot 186

Alexandre-Gabriel DECAMPS ( 1803 - 1860) The Flight into Egypt Walnut panel, one board, unparqueted Frame: 19th-century frame with columns and pediment Height: 13.5 cm. Width: 10 cm. Monogrammed in red lower right DC and dated 46. On the back a label 21413 Oil on panel, monogrammed lower right and dated "46", 5.3 x 3.9 in. Provenance : Dubois sale, Paris, February 16, 1860, no. 6 (2525 francs) Collection Emile Gaillard fils, which included twelve paintings and fifteen graphic by Decamps. Emile Gaillard collection sale, Paris, Galerie Georges Petit (auctioneer auctioneer Paul Chevallier), June 7, 1904, no. 11 (reproduced in gravure). 18500 francs Sale of the estate of Madame Emile Madame Gaillard, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, auctioneers André and Varin, May 15, 1916, no. 2. Bibliography: Adolphe Moreau, Decamps et son ?uvre, Paris, D Jouast 1869, p.201 Charles Clément, Les Artistes Célèbres Decamps, Paris, Jules Rouam éditeur, 1886 Michèle Bundorf Canizares, Essai de catalog des peintures d'Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps, doctoral thesis, Paris, 1968, volume 2, p.39, n°45 Dewey F. Mosby, "Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps, 1803-1860", New York & London, Garland Publishing 1977, vol. 1, pp. 631-632, n°494, reproduced vol. 2, plate 79. Our painting revisits the compositions of Cornelis van Poelenburgh.