Lot 801
  • 801

Joseph Nicolas Robert-Fleury

Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 USD
bidding is closed

Description

  • Joseph Nicolas Robert-Fleury
  • Une lecture chez Madame de Sevigne
  • signed Robt Fleury (lower left)
  • oil on canvas
  • 19 by 26 in.; 48.3 by 66 cm

Provenance

(Probably) Lord Seymour
Sale: Sotheby's, New York, October 22, 1997, lot 38
Acquired at the above sale by the father of the present owner

Exhibited

(Probably) Paris, Salon de 1833, no. 929

Condition

Oil on canvas, not lined. There is a stable web of craquelure over the picture surface and a shiny varnish. Under UV light, the old varnish has been cleaned from the upper left quadrant and from around the figures, but continues to fluoresce green and obscure the rest of the canvas. There are retouches visible in the forehead of the grey-haired man at left; in the proper left shoulder of the seated woman in blue; and in the chest and proper left arm of the seated woman in yellow at center. A few small additional spots of retouching scattered in the background.
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