Lot 881
  • 881

Jules Didier

Estimate
15,000 - 20,000 USD
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Description

  • Jules Didier
  • Départ pour la chasse
  • signed Jules Didier (lower left)
  • oil on canvas
  • 47 1/4 by 63 in.; 120 by 160 cm

Provenance

Sale: Sotheby's, New York, October 28, 2003, lot 173
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Exhibited

(Possibly) Paris, Salon, 1873, no, 486, titled Le vautrait du prince de Montholon, à la barrière des Beaux, à Clessy

Condition

Oil on canvas. The picture surface is in generally very good condition with bright, fresh colors and a clean surfaced. Barely perceptible web of craquelure and stretcher bar makes visible. Some areas of thinness, especially in the foliage in the middle ground. Under UV light, some older, lightly fluorescing retouches to the center of the pack of dogs. Additional older retouched scattered in the trees at upper center. Framed in a gilt wood frame and ready to hang in its current condition.
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