Auction Wednesday, June 11, 2025
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NEW YORK, NY -- Paddles were wagging at Doyle's auction of Fine Art Including Sporting Art & Dogs in Art® on June 11, 2025. This exciting auction showcased a wide range of fine art, including a special section devoted to paintings, sculpture, drawings and prints celebrating dogs, horses and sporting art. Add to an existing collection or begin a new one!
Percival Leonard Rosseau
Highlighting the sale were two works by the celebrated sporting and canine artist Percival Leonard Rosseau (1859-1937) titled Setters on Point, 1915, and A September Day, 1916. Born in Louisiana, Rosseau studied at the Académie Julian in Paris under artists Jules Lefebvre, Charles Herrmann-Léon and Tony Robert-Fleury. Although he initially focused on painting the nude figure—earning an honorable mention at the Paris Salon of 1900—his artistic path would soon shift toward animal and sporting subjects. A breakthrough came in 1903 with a critically praised painting of Diana with two wolfhounds. At the 1904 Paris Salon, he exhibited two works depicting setters, which sold within hours, followed by a large-scale composition of setters and a panther at the 1906 Salon that earned him a gold medal and cemented his reputation. Remaining in France until 1915, Rosseau traveled frequently to the United States to exhibit and fulfill commissions, eventually settling in Connecticut and joining the Old Lyme artists’ colony. He also traveled to the Southern estates and hunting grounds of his wealthy patrons, including Percy Rockefeller, at Overhills, North Carolina, which became a frequent setting for his works.
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