Lot 174
  • 174

Mariano Fortuny Reus 1838-Rome 1874

Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 GBP
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Description

  • Mariano José María Bernardo Fortuny y Carbó
  • Retrato de Joven (Portrait of a Young Woman)
  • signed, inscribed and dated Fortuny / Roma 1867 u.r.

  • watercolour on paper

  • 17 by 12cm., 6¾ by 4¾in.

Provenance

Private Collection, Madrid
Acquired by the father of the present owner from the above in the 1970s

Condition

Executed on cream wove paper. The sheet is laid down. There is some light spotting to the extreme upper right and lower right corners and some signs of faint time-staining towards the lower edge. There are no signs of any tears or damages and overall the sheet remains in good condition. Held under glass in a plaster moulded gilt frame with a green velvet slip. Unexamined out of the frame.
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