Lot 120
  • 120

Louis-Léopold Boilly La Bassée 1761 - 1845 Paris

Estimate
30,000 - 40,000 GBP
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Description

  • Louis Léopold Boilly
  • A Lady at her Toilet Wearing a Pink Dress
  • oil on canvas

Provenance

Anonymous sale, Vienna, Wawra, 7 April 1930, lot 152;
Mrs and Mrs Hugh F. Packenham Borthwick Norton;
Thence by descent to Mrs. Eva Sardinia Borthwick Norton (d.1988), of Southwick House, Purbrook, Hampshire, by 1952;
Bequeathed by her Executors to The Royal Scottish Academy in 1990.

Catalogue Note

Both Etienne Bréton and Pascal Zuber have studied transparencies of this painting, and have confirmed that it will be included in their forthcoming catalogue raisonné on the works of Boilly.