The Marquis de Cypierre was an amateur painter who collected many important works of art. Some of his purchases were made under the advice of Théophile Thoré, and included mostly paintings by eighteenth century masters, such as Watteau. A sale of his collection was held in Paris on 10 March 1845 and days following.
Bibliography
1844
Thoré, Théophile. Bulletin de l'Alliance des Arts III (25 December 1844): 179.
1845
Thoré, Théophile. Bulletin de l'Alliance des Arts III (10 February 1845): 242-3.
1976
Haskell, Francis. Rediscoveries in Art: Some Aspects of Taste, Fashion and Collecting in England and France. Ithaca, New York, 1976: 59, 76.