Lot 66
  • 66

Attributed to Antoine Pesne Paris 1683 - 1757 Berlin

Estimate
6,000 - 8,000 USD
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Description

  • Antoine Pesne
  • Portrait of a Black Page with a White Parrot
  • oil on canvas.
  • 21 1/4 by 17 1/8 in.
  • 54 by 43.5 cm.

Provenance

Anonymous sale, London, Christie's, April 24, 1998, lot 100 (as circle of Alexis Grimou).

Exhibited

Paris, Galerie Michel Roche, circa 1998

Condition

Lined canvas. The surface is thin but in stable condition. Under a faily clean, glossy varnish. Under UV light: inpainting to the page and the parrot, particularly on the sleeve.
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