Enfilade

Anne Vallayer-Coster, A Bust of Minerva, with Armour, Muskets, a Drum, a Standard, the Baton of Command of a Maréchal de France, a Laurel Wreath, and the Orders of Saint-Louis and of the Saint-Esprit, All on a Stone Ledge, exhibited at the Salon of 1777, oil on canvas. Robilant + Voena presented the work in September 2012 at the Paris Biennale des Antiquaires, as noted by The New York Times; and it was part of the Master Paintings and Sculpture Day Sale at Sotheby’s New York in February 2018 (Lot 292), where it was estimated to sell for $150,000–200,000.

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As noted at La Tribune de l’art and Art History News (the November issue of The Burlington includes a full-page advertisement). . .

Anne Vallayer-Coster: A Woman Artist under the Patronage of Marie-Antoinette
Galerie Éric Coatalem, Paris, 3 November — 16 December 2023

If Anne Vallayer-Coster was the subject of a retrospective in France, it was in Marseille, in 2003. But Paris has never had the chance to see a large number of her paintings brought together in the same place. It is now done, and we owe it to the dealer Éric Coatalem, who is exhibiting around twenty works by this remarkable artist until December 16 in his gallery in Faubourg-Saint-Honoré.