Daphnis and Chloe
Auction Closed
February 5, 09:31 PM GMT
Estimate
25,000 - 35,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Jules Delaunay
French 1828 - 1891
Daphnis and Chloe
oil on canvas
canvas: 69 ½ by 41 ¾ in.; 176.5 by 106 cm
framed: 78 ½ by 51 in.; 199.4 by 129.5 cm
The Artist;
His estate sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 14-16 December 1891, no. 43 (as Daphnis et Chloé. Esquisse);
Private collection.
Shepherd Gallery, Twenty 19th-Century Works of Art Marking the Twentieth Anniversary of Shepherd Gallery, New York 1986, cat. no. 17, illustrated (as Daphnis and Chloe with Philetas).
Longus (The Athenian Society Translation), The Pastorals, or the Loves of Daphnis and Chloe, Cambridge, Ontario 2002.
Shepherd Gallery, New Acquisitions, European Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, and Sculpture 1780-1960, New York 2008, cat. no. 19, illustrated.
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