Lot 35
  • 35

Virginie Demont-Breton

Estimate
30,000 - 40,000 USD
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Description

  • Virginie Demont-Breton
  • Alma Mater
  • signed Virginie Demont-Breton (lower left)
  • oil on canvas
  • 36 1/4 by 26 in.
  • 92.5 by 66 cm

Provenance

Private Collection (acquired in 1978)
Thence by descent

Exhibited

Paris, Salon, 1899, no. 615

Condition

Lined, faint stretcher bar mark visible across center of painting; under UV: heavy varnish fluoresces, a couple dots of inpainting in the building, inpainting to address frame abrasion center right edge, strokes and pindots of inpainting in female's figure's chest and lap, and dashes of inpainting in the baby's body. 1 by 1 inch area of inpainting at the right bottom of her veil, strokes of inpainting in landscape at lower left corner.
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