A Private European Residence: French and Neoclassical Furniture and Paintings & Works on Paper

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Lot 66
  • 66

Attributed to Henri Buquet

Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 GBP
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Description

  • Henri Buquet
  • Portrait of a gentleman, seated at a table, a view of the sea through a window behind
  • signed with monogram on the handkerchief: HB
  • oil on canvas
  • 74cm. high, 111cm. width closed, 126cm. deep; 2ft. 5in., 3ft. 7¾in., 4ft. 1½in.
of oval form, on a turned stem, on a concave sided platform base, terminating in paw feet, on brass castors; with four leaves

Provenance

Anonymous sale, New York, Sotheby's, 14 October 1999, lot 29 ($14,950), where acquired by the present owner.

Catalogue Note

The attribution to Henri Buquet is traditional.  Buquet, both a history and a portrait painter, studied under David and exhibited in the Paris salons.  He was awarded the médaille d'or in 1808 for a painting of Godefroi de Bouillon.