Ms. (transcript, handwritten).

Transcription of an unpublished auction catalog, creator unknown; includes prices and some names; signed with illegible monogram. Getty Provenance Index databases show several ms. copies extant. In this copy, a note in the same hand as the catalog follows the final lot (lot 181 in this copy) and refers to a later sale of the lot 181 items: the February-March 1777 Pierre Louis Paul Randon de Boisset auction (Lugt 2652). "Ces tableaux ont étés dans le cabinet de Mr. Randon de Boisset . Voyé le no. 19 du catalogue de la vente. 2999 [symbol for livres tournois?] - 19." The inclusion of this note in the same hand as the rest of the catalog suggests this manuscript was transcribed at some point after the Randon de Boisset sale in 1777. Sale contents shown in the Getty Provenance Index databases for lot 19 of the Randon de Boisset sale (see sale catalog F-A1386) confirm they are the same as the items in the final lot of this catalog.

181 lots; Lugt calls for 176 lots.

In brown ink on laid paper; marbled paper wrappers.

Transcription of another ms. copy published in: Blanc, C. Le trésor de la curiosité. Paris : Renouard, 1857. T. 1, p. 1-16, with title: Catalogue des tableaux de la comtesse de Verrue, dont la vente a commencé le mercredi 27 mars 1737.

"Reprise de la dite vente le 29 avril 1737": p. 13-19.

Lugt, 470.

Getty Provenance Index databases, viewed Sept. 20, 2011, Description of sale catalog F-A14.

Getty Provenance Index databases, viewed Sept. 20, 2011, Description of sale catalog F-A15.

Date of sale: March 27, 1737, and following days; resumed April 29, 1737, and following days. Getty Provenance Index databases treat as separate sales, F-A14 and F-A15.

Place of sale: Paris.

Blind embossed label of Clifford Duits on front wrapper.