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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Jan 31, 2013 | Sotheby's | New York | Important Old Master Paintings and Sculpture | 26 | $****** - ****** | Constantine Presenting The Labarum To His Troops | |||
Jan 12, 1994 | Christie's | New York | Important & Fine Old Master Paintings | 104 | Estimates not disclosed | The Labarum |
paintings
35.4 x 27.5 cm (13.94 x 10.83 in)
oil on panel
Property of the Saint-Marcel shop of the Royal Manufactory of Tapestries, Paris, under the directorship of Marc de Comans and François de la Planche, and later Hippolyte de Comans (Director of the Gobelins factory), by 1627
Henri de Valois (1603-1676), Paris
Philippe, Duc d'Orléans (le Régent), Paris
Louis, Duc d'Orléans
Thence by descent to Philippe (Égalité) Duc d'Orléans
By whom sold with all the Flemish, Dutch, and German paintings from the Orléans collection to a syndicate consisting of George, Lord Kinnaird, William Morland, and Mr. Hammersley, and imported by its agent, Thomas Moore Slade, 1792
exhibited at Mr. Slade's house in Chatham the following year
and exhibited for sale by private contract at no. 125 Pall Mall, April - mid-June 1793 (unsold)
Thomas Hammersley, London, until at least 1811
Anonymous sale, London, Christie's, 7 March 1801 (2nd day), lot 78, (bought in)
Anonymous sale, London, Coxe, 11 June 1808, lot 7
Stamp Brooksbank, Esq., London, by 1830
His deceased sale, London, Stanley, 31 May 1834, lot 87, for 21 gns.
Probably Henry Pelham Archibald Douglas Pelham-Clinton (1864-1928), seventh duke of Newcastle and fourteenth earl of Lincoln
His sale, London, Christie's, 1 June 1937, lot 90 (with three other panels, as "The Story of Decius Mus-a set of four")
With Thomas Agnew & Sons, London, by 1940
H.E.M. Benn, Ilkley, Haslemere and Bognor Regis
With P & D Colnaghi, London
Anonymous sale ("From a Private Collection"), London, Christie's, 11 December 1992, lot 59
Anonymous sale ("From a Private Collection"), New York, Christie's, 12 January 1994, lot 104
There purchased by the present collector.
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