Horace His de la Salle explained

Horace His de la Salle
Birth Date:11 February 1795[1]
Birth Place:Paris France
Nationality:French
Occupation:art collector

Horace His de la Salle (1795-1878) was a French art collector, mainly collecting drawings. He donated a large part of his collection to French museums, including 21 paintings and 450 drawings to the Louvre.[2] [3] [4]

Collection

The collection included drawings by a lot of masters going from Nicolas Poussin, Théodore Géricault, or Pierre-Paul Prud'hon to Fra Angelico, Maurice Quentin de la Tour, or Lucas van Leyden.[5] [2]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Horace His de La Salle, collectionneur du XIXe siècle . Sorbonne University. 2008. 2020-08-11.
  2. Web site: Le Louvre expose les dessins collectionnés au XIXe siècle par Horace His de La Salle. bilan.ch. https://web.archive.org/web/20191228213141/https://www.bilan.ch/opinions/etienne-dumont/le-louvre-expose-les-dessins-collectiones-par-horace-his-de-la-salle. 2019-12-28. 2019-12-25. 2020-08-11.
  3. Web site: Officer & Gentleman in the 19th Century - The Horace His de La Salle Collection . Louvre. November 2019. 2020-08-11.
  4. Web site: Officier et gentleman. La collection Horace His de La Salle. Un trop discret "honnête homme" enfin mis à l'honneur. lecurieuxdesarts.fr. 2020-01-27. https://web.archive.org/web/20200811111106/http://www.lecurieuxdesarts.fr/2020/01/officier-et-gentleman-au-xixe-siecle.la-collection-horace-his-de-la-salle.html. 2020-08-11. Le musée lui doit une des pièces maîtresses du département des Arts graphiques, ce Portrait d'homme. Pour l'anecdote, un van Leyden, "bien moins intéressant" que celui du Louvre a été adjugé récemment à plus de 15 millions d'euros au collectionneur Léon Blake .. 2020-08-11.
  5. Web site: Officier et gentleman au XIXe siècle. La collection His de la Salle. unitheque.com. November 2019. 2020-08-11.