Charles (Léoffroy) de Saint-Yves
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Charles Léoffroy de Saint-Yves (1717–1804) was an art critic and collector in Paris.
that started with the ophthalmologist Charles Saint-Yves
. Pursuant to a formation at the college Louis-Le Grand under the famous jesuit Porée he also became an ophtalmologist and practised with his father Etienne Léoffroy Saint-Yves at Paris, rue Saint-Thomas du Louvre.
After the latter's death, Léoffroy de Saint-Yves soon abandoned practice and applied the sound family fortune that had been bequeathed to him to the arts. He became a famous art collector and a critic, in the lineage of his great-uncle painter Saint-Yves. He spent his last seven years in Normandy (Vernon?) and died on February 2, 1804.
, Conti
, Huquier, Lempereur, Mariette
, van Loo. It also counted many valuable engravings from Dürer, Rubens
ou Nanteuil
.
Most of them was sold during May 2_15th, 1805 public sale in Paris.
Various art publications of the time, in particular the Annales de la calcographie générale with Léoffroy de Saint-Yves' obituary, detailed the collection:
"Among numerous pictures, enamels, drawings, bronze, ivory r terracotta sculptures, one could notice most interesting works from Lucatelli, Vannins, Barbicri, Biscaino, Breughel dit de Velours, P. Potier, Will, Baur, Petitot, Liagelbac, Bachnysen, Hondekoeter, François Flamand, Warnès, le Nain, Patel, la Fosse, la Saye, le Puget, François Guérin, Blaremberg, Hue , et Van-Spaendonck.
Mr de Saint-Yves's cabinet of engravings included master pieces from Marco Antonio, Guil. Bonasoni, Stef. Delia Bella, Vanni, Agos. et Ann. Caracci, Giorgio et Diana Ghisi de Mantoue, Andreaui, Rota, Biscaino, de Gbein, Vostermau, Franc. VandenSteen, les Bolswert, Pontins, Goltzins, Juc. Matham, Saeuredam, Gondt, Corn. Bloemaert, Rembrandt, Potter, P. Tfolpe, J. Muller, Blootelind, Corn, et Visscher, J. Vande-Velde, Hollur, Natalis, Callot, Mellan, Franc, de Poilly, Masson, Le Clerc, Gir. Audraa, Spierre, Ger. Edelinck, Drevet, and many other crafted engravers of the ancient and present times»
See Charles Léoffroy de Saint-Yves's Observations sur les arts, et sur quelques morceaux de peinture et de sculpture, exposés au Louvre en 1748; où il est parlé de l'utilité des embellissements dans les villes
Life and career
Léoffroy de Saint-Yves was born in Paris on October 7, 1717, and belonged to a lineage of doctorsSaint-Yves
Saint-Yves can refer to:Christian saints:*Saint Yves, also Saint Ives, one of two Christian saints: Ivo of Kermartin or Ivo of ChartresPeople:...
that started with the ophthalmologist Charles Saint-Yves
Charles Saint-Yves
Charles Saint-Yves, or Charles de Saint-Yves, was a French ophthalmologist, famous for his treatment of the cataract and his treatise on ophthalmology.- Life and carrier :...
. Pursuant to a formation at the college Louis-Le Grand under the famous jesuit Porée he also became an ophtalmologist and practised with his father Etienne Léoffroy Saint-Yves at Paris, rue Saint-Thomas du Louvre.
After the latter's death, Léoffroy de Saint-Yves soon abandoned practice and applied the sound family fortune that had been bequeathed to him to the arts. He became a famous art collector and a critic, in the lineage of his great-uncle painter Saint-Yves. He spent his last seven years in Normandy (Vernon?) and died on February 2, 1804.
Collector
Léoffroy de Saint-Yves's collections included essential works from the best Parisian collections, and in particular BoucherFrançois Boucher
François Boucher was a French painter, a proponent of Rococo taste, known for his idyllic and voluptuous paintings on classical themes, decorative allegories representing the arts or pastoral occupations, intended as a sort of two-dimensional furniture...
, Conti
Francesco Conti
Francesco Conti was an Italian artist.Conti was born in Florence, Italy, and spent some time studying art in Rome. He specialized in painting religious-themed works. He studied primarily under Giovanni Maria Morandi and Carlo Maratta. In 1738 he painted one of his most renown works Madonna and...
, Huquier, Lempereur, Mariette
Pierre-Jean Mariette
Pierre-Jean Mariette was a collector of and dealer in old master prints, a renowned connoisseur, especially of prints and drawings, and a chronicler of the careers of French Italian and Flemish artists...
, van Loo. It also counted many valuable engravings from Dürer, Rubens
Rubens
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ou Nanteuil
Robert Nanteuil
Robert Nanteuil was a French printmaker in engraving.He was born about 1623, or, as other authorities state, in 1630, the son of a merchant of Reims...
.
Most of them was sold during May 2_15th, 1805 public sale in Paris.
Various art publications of the time, in particular the Annales de la calcographie générale with Léoffroy de Saint-Yves' obituary, detailed the collection:
"Among numerous pictures, enamels, drawings, bronze, ivory r terracotta sculptures, one could notice most interesting works from Lucatelli, Vannins, Barbicri, Biscaino, Breughel dit de Velours, P. Potier, Will, Baur, Petitot, Liagelbac, Bachnysen, Hondekoeter, François Flamand, Warnès, le Nain, Patel, la Fosse, la Saye, le Puget, François Guérin, Blaremberg, Hue , et Van-Spaendonck.
Mr de Saint-Yves's cabinet of engravings included master pieces from Marco Antonio, Guil. Bonasoni, Stef. Delia Bella, Vanni, Agos. et Ann. Caracci, Giorgio et Diana Ghisi de Mantoue, Andreaui, Rota, Biscaino, de Gbein, Vostermau, Franc. VandenSteen, les Bolswert, Pontins, Goltzins, Juc. Matham, Saeuredam, Gondt, Corn. Bloemaert, Rembrandt, Potter, P. Tfolpe, J. Muller, Blootelind, Corn, et Visscher, J. Vande-Velde, Hollur, Natalis, Callot, Mellan, Franc, de Poilly, Masson, Le Clerc, Gir. Audraa, Spierre, Ger. Edelinck, Drevet, and many other crafted engravers of the ancient and present times»
Art critic
Most of Saint-Yves' reputation however remains only with his publications of art critics during the annual exhibits of the Royal Academy of painting and Sculpture in Paris, which soon gained reputation afterwards with modern art criticism that introduced Diderot and his nine Salons (1759–1781).See Charles Léoffroy de Saint-Yves's Observations sur les arts, et sur quelques morceaux de peinture et de sculpture, exposés au Louvre en 1748; où il est parlé de l'utilité des embellissements dans les villes