Lot 416
  • 416

Jean-Antoine Théodore Gudin

Estimate
18,000 - 25,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Jean-Antoine Théodore Gudin
  • sea battle by night
  • signed in Latin l.r.
  • oil on canvas
  • 80.2 by 117cm., 31 1/2 by 46 in.

Condition

Original canvas. There is some light surface dirt and a few minor flecks of paint-loss in places. UV light reveals a couple of spots of retouching in places. Held in a gold painted plaster frame. Unexamined out of frame.
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Catalogue Note

In 1841 Gudin was invited to St. Petersburg by Nicholas I, who commissioned him to paint twelve large canvasses with views of Russian ports.