Piat Joseph Sauvage
Sauvage, Pieter-Joseph or Pierre or Piat https://proxy.bostonathenaeum.org:2319/10.1093/benz/9780199773787.article.B00161444
Published online: 31 October 2011
Belgian, 18th – 19th century, male.
Born 1744, in Tournai; died 11 June 1818, in Tournai.
Painter (gouache), painter (enamel/porcelain), miniaturist, sculptor, draughtsman. Allegorical subjects, genre scenes, portraits, still-lifes, flowers.
Pieter-Joseph Sauvage was the father of Charles Gabriel Sauvage. He was a pupil of J. Geraerts and G. van Spaendonk in Antwerp. Shortly before 1774, he settled in Paris, where he subsequently enjoyed considerable renown, becoming a member of the Academie Française on 29 March 1783 and, later, a member of the Academy of Toulouse. He returned to his native Tournai in 1810, and was appointed to a professorship at the city's art academy. He became a member of the Academy of St Luke, where he exhibited in 1774; he also exhibited regularly with the Académie Royale, from 1781. He exhibited at the Salon de la Correspondance in 1783, and the Paris Salon of 1804. Sauvage was chiefly a portrait painter, but also produced remarkable trompe-l'œil work, imitating marble and old terracotta.
Museum and Gallery Holdings
Amiens (Mus. de Picardie): The First Consul
Angers: gouache
Arras: Bonaparte, First Consul
Bordeaux (MBA): imitation marble low relief in grisaille
Chantilly: portrait miniatures of Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette
Compiègne (Mus. national du Château): several lunettes, in grisaille
La Rochelle: La Marchande d'Amours (grisaille/blue ground); Wealth Distributing Crowns to a Group of Genii
Lille: Painting and Sculpture under the Protection of Minerva (grisailles)
Montauban: Cupids (grisaille)
Montpellier: Infant Bacchanale
Orléans: Three Angels Hanging a Bronze Medal of Christ From a Palm-tree, Using Garlands of Flowers; Three Angels Hanging a Bronze Medal of the Virgin From a Palm-tree, Using Garlands of Flowers; Cupid, With a Basket of Flowers
Paris (Mus. Marmottan-Monet): Bonaparte, First Consul
Semur-en-Auxois: Cupids Threshing Wheat (grisaille)
Sète: Cupids
Toulouse: Bacchic Procession (low relief in grisaille)
Tournai: Self-portrait; Triumph of Bacchus (grisaille); The French Revolution
Valenciennes: J.-B. Rousseau
Auction Records
Paris, 1808: Two Subjects in Low relief (paintings on porcelain) FRF 470
Paris, 12 May 1898: Profile Portrait of the Duchess of Angoulême (miniature in grisaille) FRF 540
Paris, 1900: Groups of Children, Painted in Grisaille (three lunettes) FRF 1,255
New York, 4-5 March 1909: Kitchen Scene, USD 55
Paris, 6-8 Dec 1920: Triumph of Bacchus (sepia) FRF 1,550
Paris, 29 June 1927: Childrens' Games (grisaille) FRF 3,000
Paris, 21 April 1937: Children's Games (series of three compositions in grisaille) FRF 1,450
Paris, 26-27 May 1941: Battle of the Tritons (grisaille) FRF 2,000
Paris, 23 March 1949: Bacchanale (grisaille) FRF 10,100
Paris, 24 May 1950: Dancing Cupids, FRF 17,000
London, 12 Nov 1969: Putti (grisaille) GBP 380
Paris, 7 March 1970: Cupids Leading a Ram in Procession (monochrome painting) FRF 6,300
Paris, 28 Feb 1973: Music, Sculpture, Geography, Science (four canvases in grisaille) FRF 14,100
Paris, 4 March 1976: Cupids and Animals at Play (oil on canvas two pendants, 35½ ? 51? ins/90 ? 130 cm) FRF 6,600
New York, 6 Dec 1980: Putti in a Field of Wheat (oil on canvas, in grisaille, 26? ? 49½ ins/68 ? 126 cm) USD 3,400
New York, 11 June 1981: Allegories of the Arts, Science and Justice (oil on canvas, three paintings in grisaille, 55? ? 64 ins/140.5 ? 162.5 cm) USD 10,000
London, 12 Dec 1984: Allegory of Music; Allegory of Painting (oil on canvas, a pair, 23? ? 48 ins/59 ? 121 cm) GBP 16,000
New York, 7 April 1989: Putti Playing With a Goat (oil on canvas in grisaille, 37 ? 44½ ins/94 ? 113 cm) USD 12,100
Brussels, 7 Oct 1991: Interior With a Child and Cat (oil on canvas, 12? ? 9? ins/32.5 ? 23.5 cm) BEF 80,000
Paris, 16 June 1993: Venus Shooting an Arrow at Cupid (oil/white marble, grisaille in imitation of bronze)
London, 8 Dec 1993: Trompe l'Oeil With Putti and Animals (oil on canvas, a pair, each 18? ? 32? ins/47.5 ? 82 cm) GBP 28,750
Paris, 31 March 1995: Trompe l'Oeil with Female Fauns (oil/copper, 9? ? 11½ ins/23.5 ? 29.5 cm) FRF 35,000
Amsterdam, 15 Nov 1995: Hercules and Antaeus (black and white chalk/blue paper, 20 ? 17 ins/51 ? 43 cm) NLG 4,720
New York, 17 Jan 1996: Infant Bacchus With Two Putti (oil on panel in grisaille, 6? ? 9? ins/17.1 ? 24.8 cm) USD 4,887
London, 16-17 April 1997: Putti With Musical Instruments (1769, pen with black and brown ink/black chalk, 5? ? 9 ins/14.7 ? 22 cm) GBP 517
New York, 21 Oct 1997: Trompe l'Oeil: the Triumph of Bacchus (oil on panel, grisaille, 12? ? 32 ins/31.3 ? 81 cm) USD 27,600
New York, 16 June 1999: Procession of Putti (1785, oil on canvas with trompe l'oeil ivory, 2 ? 6 ins/5 ? 16 cm) USD 7,500
London, 11 July 2000: Three Putti at Play with Fruit (grisaille, miniature) GBP 1,500
Paris, 19 June 2001: Trompe-l'oeil Portrait of Napoleon I as First Consul (oil on canvas) FRF 70,000
New York, 24 Jan 2002: Trompe l'oeil of Putti Playing with a Goat (oil on canvas, grisaille, 13 ? 22 ins/32 ? 55 cm) USD 40,000
Paris, 28 June 2002: Children's Bacchanale (oil on panel, 12 ? 33 ins/31 ? 84 cm) EUR 22,500
Paris, 21 May 2003: Madame Royale (grisaille, miniature) EUR 2,100
London, 22 May 2003: Gentleman in Profile (grisaille, miniature, cicular, h. 1½ ins/4 cm) GBP 1,100
London, 25 May 2004: Jugate Profiles of King Louis XVI, Queen Marie Antoinette and the Dauphin (grisaille, miniature) GBP 4,500
