Lot 12
  • 12

Paul Baudry

Estimate
30,000 - 40,000 USD
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Description

  • Paul Baudry
  • Portrait of Guillemette de Lareinty
  • signed B and dated 1857 (right center); inscribed GUILLEMETTE (top center)
  • oil on canvas
  • 18 1/2 by 13 3/4 in.
  • 47 by 35 cm

Provenance

Mme la baronne de Lareinty (acquired directly from the artist)
Thence by descent (the sitter and until at least 1929)

Exhibited

Paris, Salon, 1859, no. 169 (as Guillemette)
Paris, École Nationale des Beaux-Arts, Exposition au profit de l'Association des Artistes peintres, sculpteurs, etc., et du monument à élèver à la mémoire de Paul Baudry, 1886, no. 27 (lent by la baronne de Lareinty)
Paris, Grand Palais, Paul Baudry au Salon des artistes français, 1929, no. 3432 (lent by the sitter)

Literature

Catalogue des oeuvres de Paul Baudry: avec une étude par M. Eugène Guillaume, Paris, 1886, p. 30, no. 27
Charles Ephrussi, Paul Baudry: sa vie et son œuvre, Paris, 1887, p. 176, 317
Marcel Fouquier, Profils et portraits: notes de littérature, Paris, 1891, p. 294
Paul Baudry, 1828-1886: les portraits et les nus, exh. cat., Historial de la Vendée, Les Lucs sur-Boulogne, October 26, 2007-February 3, 2008, p. 130

Condition

Unlined. Under UV: Dots and dashes of inpainting fluoresce in the background and in isolated areas of her eyes, and with reinforcements to inscription and date.
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