Published in september 2025

In 2025, FAB Paris became the most prestigious international event in Paris for the arts, from Antiquity to the present day, by joining forces with La Biennale Paris.

This edition of Fine Arts Paris & La Biennale brought together round one hundred exhibitors from September 20 to 24 at the Grand Palais in Paris.

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List of artists

in order of appearance in the catalogue

• Pedro MACHUCA (Tolède vers 1490 – Grenade 1550)
• Baccio BANDINELLI (Florence 1493 – Florence 1560)
• Jacopo da EMPOLI (Florence 1551 – Florence 1640)
• Marc ARCIS (Mouzens 1655 – Toulouse 1739)
• Ateliers du Maine (XVIIe siècle)
• Rosalba CARRIERA (Venise 1675 – Venise 1757)
• Jacob de WIT (Amsterdam 1695 – Amsterdam 1754)
• Johann Elias RIDINGER (Ulm 1698 – Augsbourg 1767)
• Francesco FONTEBASSO (Venise 1707 – Venise 1769)
• Jean-Baptiste GREUZE (Tournus 1725 – Paris 1805)
• Johan-Joseph ZOFFANY (Francfort 1733 – Strand-on-the-Green 1810)
• Jean-Baptiste LEPRINCE (Metz 1734 – St-Denis-du-Port 1781)
• Jean-Jacques DE BOISSIEU (Lyon 1736 – Lyon 1810)
• François-André VINCENT (Paris 1746 – Paris 1816)
• Anne-Louis GIRODET (Montargis 1767 – Paris 1824)
• Josephus-Augustus KNIP (Tilbourg 1777 – Berlicum 1847)
• Ferdinand-Marie-Félix STORELLI (Turin 1778 – Paris 1854)
• Merry-Joseph BLONDEL (Paris 1781 – Paris 1853)
• Michel Martin DROLLING (Paris 1786 – Paris 1851)
• François-Joseph NAVEZ (Charleroi 1787 – Bruxelles 1869)
• Antoine-Jean-Baptiste THOMAS (Paris 1791 – St-Maurice 1834)
• Joseph-Ferdinand LANCRENON (Lods 1794 – Lods 1874)
• Jean-Charles-Joseph REMOND (Paris 1795 – Paris 1875)
• Eugénie TRIPIER LE FRANC (Paris 1797 – Paris 1872)
• Prosper BARBOT (Nantes 1798 – Chambellay 1878)
• Eugène DELACROIX (Charenton-St-Maurice 1798 – Paris 1863)
• Jules-Frédéric BOUCHET (Paris 1799 – Paris 1871)
• Louis-Auguste LAPITO (Joinville-le-Pont 1803 – Boulogne-Billancourt 1874)
• William WYLD (Londres 1806 – Paris 1889)
• Adolphe-Félix CALS (Paris 1810 – Honfleur 1880)
• Henri LEHMANN (Kiel 1814 – Paris 1882)
• Louis JANMOT (Lyon 1814 – Lyon 1892)
• Jean-Baptiste CARPEAUX (Valenciennes 1827 – Courbevoie 1875)
• Antoine VOLLON (Lyon 1833 – Paris 1900)
• Léon BONVIN (Vaugirard 1834 – Meudon 1866)
• Henri FANTIN-LATOUR (Grenoble 1836 – Buré 1904)
• Odilon REDON (Bordeaux 1840 – Paris 1916)
• Gustave Achille GUILLAUMET (Puteaux 1840 – Paris 1887)
• Ernest-Ange DUEZ (Paris 1843 – Bougival 1896)
• René de SAINT-MARCEAUX (Reims 1845 – Paris 1915)
• Pierre CARRIER-BELLEUSE (Paris 1851 – Paris 1932)
• Louise ABBEMA (Etampes 1853 – Paris 1927)
• Hippolyte PETITJEAN (Mâcon 1854 – Paris 1929)
• Henri-Edmond CROSS (Douai 1856 – Le Lavandou 1910)
• Marcel Paul MEYS (Paris 1856 – Paris 1939)
• Charles COTTET (Le Puy-en-Velay 1863 – Paris 1925)
• Edouard VUILLARD (Cuiseaux 1868 – La Baule 1940)
• Charles LACOSTE (Floirac 1870 – Paris 1959)
• Georges-Paul LEROUX (Paris 1877 – Meudon 1957)
• Georges DORIGNAC (Bordeaux 1879 – Paris 1925)
• Léa LAFUGIE (Paris 1890 – Paris 1972)
• A. CHOUART (Ecole Française vers 1899)
• Salvator DALI (Figueras 1904 – Figueras 1989)
• Daniele STEARDO (Né à Gênes en 1976)

Focus on the artwork on the cover

Rosalba CARRIEERA
(Chioggia 1675 – Venise 1757)
Tête de jeune femme vue de trois quart, les yeux levés

Pastel
35,5 x 29,5 cm
Annotated in brown ink and pen on the back of the frame: « Pastel Par Rosalba Carriera /née à Venise en 1672 morte / dans la même ville en 1757 / Catalogue de M. de Julienne / n°71 121-1 »

Provenance

Gift from Rosalba Carriera to Jean de Julienne on January 12, 1721

Jean de Julienne (1686–1766), his posthumous sale, Paris, March 30, 1767, no. 72

Ange Laurent de La Live de Jully, his sale, Paris, May 2, 1770, no. 130

Marie-Anne-Catherine Doublet, Madame de Bandeville, her sale, December 3–10, 1787, no. 7

Private collection, Agen, in 1956

Bibliography

Rosalba Carriera’s journal during her stay in Paris in 1720 and 1721, published in Italian by Vianelli and translated by Alfred Sensier, Paris, 1865, entry dated January 12, 1721, p. 295

P.G., Catalogue des tableaux de Monsieur de Julienne. Carnet extraordinaire demeuré inédit pendant deux cents ans ouvre les portes d’un collectionneur parisien en 1756, in Connaissance des Arts, Paris, April 15, 1956, pp. 64–69

Bernardina Sani, Rosalba Carriera, Turin, 1988, n° 110, reproduit fig. 86

N. Jeffares, Dictionnary of pastellists before 1800, Londres, 2006, p. 118, reproduit

Bernardina Sani, Rosalba Carriera, Turin, 2007, n° 119, reproduit

I. Tillerot, Jean de Jullienne et les collectionneurs de son temps : un regard singulier sur le tableau, Paris, 2010, n° 425

Valentine Toutain-Quittelier, Le carnaval, la fortune et la folie, Rennes, 2017, fig. 125

The most famous Venetian portraitist of the 18th century in Europe, Rosalba Carriera began her career in the lace industry, and later as a painter of miniature snuffbox decorations. Introduced to collectors by Nicolas Vleughels, she entered the Academy of Saint Luke in 1708 and became renowned for her pastel portraits. In 1721, she was invited to Paris by Pierre Crozat and Pierre-Jean Mariette, where she painted the portrait of Antoine Watteau. Her numerous portraits of the French aristocracy earned her admission to the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture. She later worked for the Courts of Vienna and Poland, before returning to Venice, where she attracted many English patrons. A testament to the artist’s Parisian stay, our testina, or “figure of fancy,” was given by Rosalba Carriera to Jean de Julienne on January 12, 1721, as recorded in his Journal. It subsequently entered the La Live de Jully collection, where it was described in the sale of May 2, 1770, as “a head of a young woman, seen three-quarters, with eyes raised,” “on blue paper, done a presto.”