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Lot 837
  • 837

Victor Adam

Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 USD
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Description

  • Victor Adam
  • Les Courses au Champ-de-Mars
  • Indistinctly signed and dated 1836 (lower right); inscribed Courses au Champ de mars (on the stretcher bar)
  • Oil on canvas
  • 18 1/4 by 24 1/2 in.
  • 46.3 by 62.2 cm

Provenance

Sale: Sotheby's, Monaco, June 22, 1985, lot 198

Exhibited

Paris, Hôtel Jean Charpentier, Histoire des Courses en France depuis les Origines jusqu’en 1870, May 2-31, 1925, no. 381
Paris, Hôtel Jean Charpentier, Exposition "Louis-Philippe”: l'art et la vie sous Louis-Philippe, 1830-1848, June 16 - July 10, 1926, no. 1, titled Courses

Condition

Oil on canvas, unlined. The painting has surface dirt, a fine web of craquelure and abrasions at the edges. Under UV light, there are spots of inpainting scattered in the sky.
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