Antoine-Jean GROS, known as Baron GROS (Paris 1771 - Meudon - Lot 28

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Antoine-Jean GROS, known as Baron GROS (Paris 1771 - Meudon - Lot 28
Antoine-Jean GROS, known as Baron GROS (Paris 1771 - Meudon 1835) The shepherds of Arcadia Canvas 36.2 x 30 cm (old restorations) Provenance : - vente des tableaux, esquisses, dessins et croquis de M. Le Baron Gros, peintre d'histoire..., Paris (Me Bonnefons), November 23 - 27, 1835, no. 24 ; - collection J. B. Delestre. Offset by Jean-Baptiste Delestre when the painting was in his collection (see Gaston Delestre collection, his sale "Collection Gaston Delestre Deux siècles de passion familiale", Artcurial, March 22, 2017, no. 90.) ; - vente après décès de M. J. B. Delestre, artiste-peintre, Paris, Hôtel Drouot (Me Delbergue-Cormont), October 13, 1871, no. 4 (160 fr); Damoye père collection; - vente aux enchères publiques après décès de Mme Veuve Damoye de tableaux anciens et modernes..., Paris, Hôtel Drouot (Me Vannes), October 1, 1891, no. 33 ; - private collection, France. Bibliography: - J.B. Delestre, Gros sa vie et ses ouvrages, 2nd ed., Paris, 1847, quoted p. 19, reproduced fig. 10 (a drawing illustrating the composition) ; - J. Triper le Franc, Histoire de la vie et de la mort du baron Gros, le grand peintre, rédigée sur de nouveaux documents et d'après des souvenirs inédits..., Paris, 1880, quoted pp. 51-52 (dated circa 1791); - G. Dargenty, Le Baron Gros, Paris, 1887, quoted p. 6 ("he was then twenty years old, and this little composition is one that one understands and executes at that age"). Our painting can be compared with several drawings in the Louvre and one in the Metropolitan Museum in New York. We would like to thank Gérard Augier for confirming our attribution, based on a visual examination of the work in May 2026.
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