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• Auction House:
  Mossgreen
• Sale Name:
  The Denis Joachim Collection
• Sale Date:
  19 Jun 2016 ~ 2pm - Session 1: Lots 1 - 321
  20 Jun 2016 ~ 10am - Session 2: Lots 322 - 480
  20 Jun 2016 ~ 2pm - Session 3: Lot 481 - 688
  20 Jun 2016 ~ 6pm - Session 4: Lots 689 - 818
• Lot #:
  689
• Lot Description:
  Romuald Georges Menard
  Vue De La Ville De Sydney Et Environs 1838
  watercolour
  20.5 x 42 cm
  signed and dated centre and lower right: Menard Sydney 1838
• Provenance:
  Private collection, Paris; Private collection, Victoria; Christie’s, Sydney, Australian and European Paintings, 17 August 1998, lot 1023; Joshua McClelland Print Room
• Exhibited:
  Early Views of Sydney and Melbourne and Australian Landscapes, Joshua McClelland Print Room, Melbourne, 18 April-12 May 2000, cat. no. 6 (illustrated, cover)
• Notes:
  In the last months of 1838, the French naval artist Romuald Georges Ménard visited Sydney on board the Vénus under the command of Captain Abel Aubert Du Petit-Thouars. The expedition, on the direction of Louis Philippe, claimed Tahiti for France and visited the English settlement at Sydney, where Ménard was able to make studies for his watercolours of the harbour, its environs, and the Parramatta River. Eventually two lithographs based on Ménard’s drawings appeared in the Atlas Pittoresque, published in Paris in 1841, being one of four atlas volumes accompanying ten others of text for Dupetit-Thours’ official account of the expedition, Voyage autour du monde sur la Fregate la Vénus. One plate carries the title ‘Vue de la rade de Sydney et du For Macquarie. The second, our watercolour, Vue de la ville de Sydney et environs, was presented as a double plate with the slightly different title, ‘Vue de Sydney et del’éntree de la rivière de Parramatta’. Topographical in its requirements and skillful execution, the broad sweep of land is embellished with numerous buildings and other signs of civilization, of Sydney Cove and the harbour decked with shipping at anchor or scudding before a lively breeze. The whole has a freshness of vision that comes from seeing a place for the first time, a moment in history frozen for future fascination. David Thomas
• Estimate:
  A$60,000 - 80,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Art

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