V. Delbergue-Cormont

V. Delbergue-Cormont was the commissaire-priseur at the Paris sale of Luigi Palma di Cesnola's Cypriot antiquities on 25 and 26 March 1870. The catalogue names him as commissaire-priseur and Henri Hoffmann as expert¹. His forename is not recorded; the December 1873 catalogue prints only the initial V.².

His earlier sales were of other things. Catalogues of 1859 and 1861 give his address as 8 rue de Provence, the first for a sale of old-master paintings from the collection of a lady of Strasbourg, the second for coins and porcelain from the collection of the late Marin Lavigne, with a M. Rollin as expert^3,4.

The Cesnola sale was held at the Hôtel des Commissaires-Priseurs. The catalogue describes the pieces as coming from excavations made in 1866 by Cesnola, and W. Froehner wrote its preface^1,7. Lila Marangou lists the buyers as the Louvre, the museums of Autun, Saint-Germain, Marseille and Orléans, and private collectors including Louis de Clercq⁷. Cesnola complained of the prices in a letter of 30 April 1870⁷.

On 15 and 16 December 1873 he conducted a second Drouot sale, of Cypriot antiquities described as coming from recent excavations, again with Hoffmann as expert².