A sale that will surely attract international painting enthusiasts. The table “Still life to financiers”, painted around 1630, by Lubin Baugin, will be auctioned in Vichy this Saturday, August 16. It will be priced between 200,000 and 300,000 euros.
This painting was discovered In a private collection, specifies Vichy auction. He was found in a Parisian apartment, during an inventory for a succession last November, specifies Le Figaro. “The family was not aware of its value,” said Étienne Laurent, the auctioneer of the sale, with our colleagues.
According to knowledge of the arts, “the painting, exceptional because of its rarity and for its quality, celebrates the desserts, then reserved for a privileged elite”.
A corpus of 5 still lifes
This table – which represents in particular a table topped with green on which are placed two plates of Visitandines (original name of financiers), dried fruits and sugar crystals – completes a corpus of four kinds, two of which are exhibited at the Louvre museum, the others in Rennes and Rome.
According to Vichy Enchères, the series was “probably” painted at the start of the painter’s career, “when he left his native province to settle in the capital”. This same source explains that the painter was forgotten for several centuries, before being rediscovered in 1934.
The actor Michel Bouquet had embodied him on the screen for Alain Corneau in “every morning of the world” (1991).