Lot 13
  • 13

Albert Lebourg

Estimate
12,000 - 18,000 USD
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Description

  • Albert Lebourg
  • Le Moulin à vent sur le canal à Rotterdam
  • Signed A. Lebourg and inscribed Rotter Dam (lower right); indistinctly inscribed (on the stretcher bar)
  • Oil on canvas
  • 15 by 21 1/2 in.; 38.1 by 54.6 cm

Provenance

M. & Mme. Gaston Alexandre (acquired by 1901)
M. & Mme. Gaston Claus (acquired from the above)
Thence by descent

Literature

Léonce Bénédite, Albert Lebourg, Paris, 1923, no. 310, listed p. 315

Condition

Oil on canvas, lined. Surface in generally good condition, aside from a web of stable, fine craqueleur throughout and some areas of pigment separation in the lower quarter of the picture. Minor surface dirt. Under UV light, scattered lines and dashes of in painting to address pigment separation. Some pigment active along right edge.
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