CHARLIER Jacques (1720-1790) AND HIS STUDIO, VENUS AND LOVE, CIRCA 1770

TECHNIQUE: Watercolor and gouache on ivory, protected under glass

ARSTIST: CHARLIER Jacques et son atelier

SIGNED:

FRAME : Ormulu frame

PORTRAIT SIZE: 8,5x6cm

FRAME SIZE: 12x11,5cm

DESCRIPTION :

Venus going out of  bath, seizes an arrow from Love, which begs her to return it to him.

Charlier took back the paintings of his contemporary François Boucher , he created also many subjects in miniature.

Painter to the King, having an immense success, he had a studio near the Palais-Royal where he trained many pupils. Doubtless, this  explains why we find often two versions of a same miniature (between the Musée du Louvre and the Wallace Collection for example) .

Thus, this miniature has another version attributed to Charlier in Wallace Collection.


CONDITION: A central horizontal crack on restored by Dr. Bernd Pappe. Visible or not, depend where the light comes

BIBLIOGRAPHY: Bénézit, Blattel, Schidolf, Bernd Pappe, Foster, L. Bouchard, Bouchot, Lemberger, Tansey, Louvre.

PRICE: 1800€