Lot 89
  • 89

François Flameng

Estimate
70,000 - 90,000 USD
bidding is closed

Description

  • François Flameng
  • An Evening's Entertainment for Josephine
  • signed FRANÇOIS FLAMENG (lower right)
  • oil on canvas
  • 37 by 51 in.
  • 94 by 129.5 cm

Provenance

Wallace C. Yost
Kurt E. Schon, Ltd., New Orleans
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1992

Exhibited

Pensacola, Florida, Pensacola Museum of Art; Maitland, Florida, The Maitland Art Center, The Napoleon Collection of Wallace C. Yost, 1987-1988, no. 8

Condition

Lined; under UV: heavy varnish, dots and dashes of inpainting in trees on left and right, and in foreground, some dots and dashes of inpainting in sky, spots of inpainting in Napoleon's boot, dashes of inpainting in faces of three women on the right closest to Napoleon.
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