Lot 146
  • 146

Attributed to Jean-Baptiste-Henri Deshays

Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 USD
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Description

  • Attributed to Jean-Baptiste-Henri Deshays
  • Portrait of a Woman with a Flower
  • oval, oil on canvas

Provenance

Sotheby's New York, June 3, 2010, lot 146

Exhibited

London, Wildenstein and Co., Women of France in the XVIII century, April-May 1938, no. 3.

Literature

Women of France in the XVIII century, exhibition catalogue, London 1938, under no. 3, reproduced;
A. Blancel, Jean-Baptiste Deshays 1729-1765, Paris 2008, p. 191, under plate 9 (as signed and dated on the reverse: Meudon 1761, as location unknown, and listed under Peintures d'attribution incertaine)

Condition

The work is in good condition, the canvas is lined, light craquelure throughout UNDER UV: there us a wash to the background and inpainting to edge of work due to old frame abrasion. A few touches on the figure but minor.
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