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PROPERTY FROM THE JOHN HOBBS COLLECTION LOUIS LAGUERRE (1663-1721) A GILDED URN DECORATED WITH A NYM

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PROPERTY FROM THE JOHN HOBBS COLLECTION LOUIS LAGUERRE (1663-1721) A GILDED URN DECORATED WITH A NYM
Property from the john hobbs collection LOUIS LAGUERRE (1663-1721) A Gilded Urn Decorated with a Nymph and Satyrs, Flanked by Perfume Burners Oil heightened with gold leaf on panel 77 x 43 in. (196 x 110 cm) $25,000-35,000 Provenance The Dukes of Devonshire, Chatsworth, Derbyshire (sold 1976). literature Apollo, September 1976 (Vol. 104), p. 45. Laguerre was born at Versailles, the son of the keeper of the royal menagerie, and Louis XIV was his godfather. After studying at the Academie Royale de Peinture et Sculpture, he worked in the studio of Charles Lebrun (1619-1690). He came to England in 1682, where he worked first as an assistant to Antonio Verrio (1639-1707) and then became a master decorator in his own right. His first major independent commission was for William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Devonshire (1640-1694), at Chatsworth, Derbyshire (Fig. 1), where from 1689-1697 he undertook an ambitious decorative scheme in the Baroque manner fashionable in England since its introduction by Verrio at Windsor. Laguerre painted the chapel, the hall and several of the state rooms at Chatsworth with mythological scenes set in a rich trompe-l’oeil framework (Fig. 2). His illusionistic skills displayed to advantage on the cove of the State Bedroom, where figures are depicted seated on the painted architecture and appear to cast deep shadows across it, a startlingly effective device. The duke became his principal patron beyond the Crown, and Laguerre also worked for him at Devonshire House, London. This panel may have been saved from the fire at Devonshire House in 1773, may have come from Burlington House, London where Laguerre also worked for the duke, or may have formed part of a subsequent altered room at Chatsworth, from where it was sold in 1976. Laguerre also enjoyed extensive royal and aristocratic patronage and worked at Hampton Court, Blemheim, Marlborough House, Petworth, Burghley, Buckingham House (later Palace) and Frogmore House.