Lot 104
  • 104

Ferdinand Victor Léon Roybet 1840-1920

Estimate
8,000 - 10,000 USD
bidding is closed

Description

  • Ferdinand Victor Léon Roybet
  • Portrait of a Cavalier
  • signed F. Roybet lower right
  • oil on cradled panel
  • 28 1/2 by 21 in.
  • 72.3 by 53.3 cm.

Provenance

George C. Thomas, Philadelphia (by circa 1900)
George C. Thomas, Jr., Los Angeles (by descent from the above, his father)
Josephine Thomas Gardner, Palm Springs (by descent from the above, her father)

Condition

On a stable cradled panel. Some frame abrasion visible at upper right. Under UV: Heavy varnish fluoresces and makes surface difficult to read through. Scattered dashes of inpainting throughout particularly in man's coat and clock. Inpainting to address frame abrasion at upper and right edges.
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