PROPERTY FROM THE MURIEL S. AND NOAH L. BUTKIN COLLECTION, SOLD TO BENEFIT THE CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART
Ernest Meissonier
Study of a Cavalier
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May 24, 02:24 PM GMT
Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 USD
Lot Details
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Property from the Muriel S. and Noah L. Butkin Collection, Sold to Benefit the Cleveland Museum of Art
Ernest Meissonier
French
1818-1891
A Gentleman of the time of Louis XIII
initialed ƎM (lower left)
oil on panel
panel: 7 ¼ by 5 in.; 18.5 by 12.5 cm
framed: 9 ¼ by 7 ¼ in.; 23.5 by 18.5 cm
The Muriel S. and Noah L. Butkin Collection
Vallery C. O. Gréard, Meissonier: His Life and His Art. New York, 1897, p. 385 (possibly A Gentleman of the time of Louis XIII).
This panel might be the painting identified in Octavia Gerard's 1878 book on the artist as A Gentleman of the time of Louis XIII, a study for the cavalier who helps a lady out of her carriage in another one of Meissonier's paintings, Arrival at the Castle.
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