Lot 113
  • 113

Alexandre-Ivanovitch Sauerweid

Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 EUR
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Description

  • Alexandre-Ivanovitch Sauerweid
  • Sara, Napoleon's horse
  • Monogrammed lower right AS
  • Oil on canvas
  • 49 x 60 cm ; 19 1/4 by 23 5/8 in.

Provenance

Former Sarret Collection

Exhibited

Collections privées de Béziers et sa région, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Béziers, July- September 1967, n°127  (as by Carle Vernet)

Literature

Germain Bazin, Théodore Géricault, Tome III, Paris, 1989, p. 10, illustrated fig. 6 ;
Philippe Osché, Les chevaux de Napoléon, Aoste, 2002, pp. 228 - 229, n°84 illustrated in full page

Condition

Small chips are missing by the borders, in the upper right and in the lower left, as well as a long thin chip missing (all visible in the catalogue). Small chips are missing scattered on the surface. Under UV light, a certain number of repaints are visible, some concealing maybe old tears : in the lower left on the militaries in the back, on the model's shoulder, on his right hand to his right foot ; other repaints are visible in the sky ; one below the horse's belly, on the ground ; several small repaints on his back right leg and between the legs ; an important repaint on the right approx. 13 x 7cm (on the sculpture) ; a repaint covers the "L" and "S" on the inscription. The monogram is intact.
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