Lot 1686
  • 1686

THE BURPEE-CONANT LIMNER | A Young Lady in a Peach Colored Dress and a Boy in a Blue Jacket: A Pair of Paintings

Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 USD
bidding is closed

Description

  • The Burpee-Conant Limner
  • A Young Lady in a Peach Colored Dress and a Boy in a Blue Jacket: A Pair of Paintings
  • Each: oil on paper mounted on panel
  • Each: 10 by 8 in.; (25.4 by 20.3 cm)

Provenance

T. D. Williams, Maine;
Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch;
Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, Maryland (gift from the above; sold: Sotheby Parke Bernet, American 19th Century and Folk Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, January 28, 1982, sale 4784M, lot 7).

Condition

Young Girl: There is frame abrasion at edges and the work appears slightly dirty. Under UV: there are scattered dots and lines of inpainting throughout. Young Boy: There is frame abrasion at edges and the work appears slightly dirty. Under UV: there are scattered dots and lines of inpainting in the figure's arm, dress, and in the background.
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