Lot 85
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A LOUIS XV REVERSE-GLASS PAINTING OF APOLLO AND ISSE
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A LOUIS XV REVERSE-GLASS PAINTING OF APOLLO AND ISSE

BY PIERRE JOUFFROY, DATED 1760

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A LOUIS XV REVERSE-GLASS PAINTING OF APOLLO AND ISSE
BY PIERRE JOUFFROY, DATED 1760
Depicting Apollo with a blue quiver sash and pink cape, with his quiver on the ground in front of him, with Isse before her sheep, before a tree, in a landscape, signed lower centre 'P. Jouffroy fecit. 1760', the blue papered backboard inscribed 'P. Jouffroy fecit 1760' and 'Peinture sur Verre', in a Louis XVI giltwood frame, regilt
20¾ x 17½ in. (52.5 x 44.5 cm.)
Provenance
Bought from Bernard Steinitz, Paris, 9 March 1987.
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Lot Essay

Pierre Jouffroy (active 1742-1786) is recorded as having worked in Pontarlier (Doubs) in 1743, however, a French glass painter under the name P. Jouffroy also exhibited repeatedly at the London Free Society and the Society of Artists in the years 1765-67.

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