Lot 13
  • 13

Jules Joseph Lefebvre

Estimate
30,000 - 40,000 USD
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Description

  • Jules Joseph Lefebvre
  • Portrait of an Ottoman
  • signed Jules Lefebvre (lower left)
  • oil on canvas

  • 24 by 20 in.
  • 61 by 51 cm

Provenance

The Fine Art Society, London (in circa 2000)
Private Collection, United Kingdom
Sale: Lyon & Turnball, Edinburgh, April 8, 2009, lot 563, illustrated
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Condition

Unlined, under UV: varnish fluoresces unevenly, inpainting along four edges, dots of inpainting in costume, beard, top of turban and tassle. Lines of inpainting along his profile and where his turban meets his face, dot of inpainting in background on right center, a few thin lines of inpainting at upper right corner.
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