Lot 116
  • 116

Gerasim Ignatevich Kadunov, 1824-1871

Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Gerasim Ignatevich Kadunov
  • portrait of anna von platen
  • signed in Cyrillic l.l. and dated 1862
  • oil on canvas
  • 44 by 34.5cm., 17¼ by 13½in.

Condition

The canvas has been lined. The paint surface is a little dirty with lines of craquelure in places throughout. Some scratches to the paint surface are visible along the right hand edge. UV light reveals a few spots of retouching to the lower portion of the picture byt the presence of an opaque layer of varnish prevents a more conlusive examination. Held in a gold painted wooden frame. Unexamined out of frame.
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