Lot 73
  • 73

Léon-Jean-Basile Perrault

Estimate
30,000 - 50,000 USD
bidding is closed

Description

  • Léon-Jean-Basile Perrault
  • Meditation
  • oil on canvas
  • 57 1/8 by 38 5/8 in.
  • 145.1 by 98.1 cm
signed and dated L. Perrault 1893 lower right

Provenance

Sold, Sotheby's, New York, April 24, 2002, lot 67, illustrated

Exhibited

Paris, Salon, 1893, no. 1394

Condition

Unlined, stretcher bar marks visible; under UV: band of inpainting along all four edges approximately one inch wide, pindots and some strokes of inpainting to her dress, edge of her pupils reinforced, a few strokes of inpainting in her hair.
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