Atelier de Adam François Van Der MEULEN (1632 – 1690) - Lot 152

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Atelier de Adam François Van Der MEULEN (1632 – 1690) - Lot 152
Atelier de Adam François Van Der MEULEN (1632 – 1690) The capture of Besançon Gouache on vellum pasted on panel 23 x 54cm Annotated "F V" on the lower right Wetness on the left side and some rubbing In an antique carved wooden frame Provenance : former collection Becquet de Vienne In 1674, Louis XIV took back Franche-Comté and Besançon after 201 years of Habsburg rule. He integrated it definitively into the Kingdom of France by the treaty of Nijmegen. The original version is preserved in Besançon, at the Musée du Temps, Palais, Granvelle, (see I. Richefort, Adam-François Van der Meulen, Peintre flamand au service de Louis XIV, Dexia Banque, Fonds Mercator, Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2004, p.108, fig.108, repr.) The Musée de Versailles has another studio version with some variations (both in format and foreground composition) (inv.MV8365)
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