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Alexandre-François Desportes: English and French partridge, a covey of quail and an ornamental pheasant disturbed by a fox, on a riverbank   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Artist
Alexandre-François Desportes  (1661–1743)  wikidata:Q1359864
 
Alexandre-François Desportes
Alternative names
François, Alexandre-François
Description French painter and drawer
Date of birth/death 24 February 1661 Edit this at Wikidata 20 April 1743 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Champigneul Paris
Work location
Warsaw (1695–1696)
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artist QS:P170,Q1359864
Title
English and French partridge, a covey of quail and an ornamental pheasant disturbed by a fox, on a riverbank
Object type painting
object_type QS:P31,Q3305213
Date 1711
date QS:P571,+1711-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium oil on canvas
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259
Dimensions 38 ½ x 51 1/8 in. (97.8 x 129.7 cm.)
Private collection
institution QS:P195,Q768717
Object history

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Professor Thomas Bodkin (1887-1961), Dublin, by 1925; his sale, Sotheby's, London, 11 November 1959, lot 30, where acquired for £680 by the following
with Old Masters Galleries, London.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, New York, 6 April 2006, lot 74.
with Arader Galleries, New York, where acquired by the present owner on 30 November 2006.
Inscriptions signed and dated 'Desportes. / 1711.' (lower right)
Source/Photographer https://archive.is/YZiY3

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