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FRANÇOIS-ANDRÉ VINCENT (PARIS 1746-1816)
Head of a young man in agony
signed ‘Vincent’
red chalk, stumping
5.2/5 x 5.2/5 in. (14.2 x 14.2 cm)
$7,000-10,000
PROVENANCE:
Anonymous sale; Piasa, Paris, 17 December 1999, lot 89.
LITERATURE:
J.-P. Cuzin, François-André Vincent, 1746-1816. Entre Fragonard et David, Paris,
2013, no. 381D, ill.
The present drawing can be related to figures in two history paintings
by Vincent, whose manner stradles those of Jacques-Louis David and of
Fragonard: The Rape of the Sabine Women of 1781 (Musée d’Angers, inv.
MBA J 178; see Cuzin, op. cit., no. 380 P, ill.), and the lost Achilles rescued by
Vulcan of 1782-1783 (ibid., no. 402 P). Following the dates of these works,
Jean-Pierre Cuzin has suggested a date for the present drawing around
1780-1782. The signature in pen and brown ink is comparable to one found
on a black and white chalk study for Diana and Actaeon, dated 1778 (The
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, inv. 62.124.1; ibid., no. 338 D, ill p.
100).

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JEAN-JACQUES KARPFF, CALLED CASIMIR (COLMAR 1770-1829
VERSAILLES)
Jean-Jacques Reiset seated by a desk
inscribed ‘Au citoy[en] Recev’ (on the letter on the desk); inscribed ‘Jean Jacque
Reiset, vivant/ Bailli de la Province d'Alsace/ avocat au conseil Souverain
d’Alsace/ Receveur Général du Haut Rhin/ ne à Colmar en 1731 mort dans
cette/ ville en 1804./ Casimir Karpff./ Colmar.’ (on the backing)
12 x 9 in. (30.3 x 23.1 cm)
graphite, on paper mounted on board
$7,000-10,000
PROVENANCE:
Anonymous sale; Christie’s, New York, 30 January 1998, lot 339.
LITERATURE:
V. von der Brüggen and R. Mariani, Jean-Jacques Karpff (1770- 1829). ‘Visez au
sublime’, exhib. cat., Colmar, Musée Unterlinden, 2017, p. 131, under no. 53.

The elegant man seated at his desk depicted here is Jean-Jacques de Reiset
(1730-1804) who, like Casimir, came from Colmar and who held several
official position in Alsace, and was also the grandfather of Frederic Reiset,
the famous collector and and curator of the Louvre’s drawings collection.
Another version of the drawing, with a pendant portrait of Reiset’s wife,
Marie-Thérèse Carré de Baudouin, is also known (Von der Brüggen and
Mariani, op. cit., nos. 52, 53, ill.). The drawing offered here drawing is still
preserved on the tablet, or a cardboard with the sheet wrapped around it, on
which it was made.

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