Lot 988
  • 988

Possibly by Erastus Salisbury Field (1805 - 1900)

Estimate
600 - 800 USD
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Description

  • Erastus Salisbury Field
  • Portrait of a Dark Haired Lady with Large Tortoiseshell Comb and Double Lace Collar
  • oil on canvas
  • 29 by 25 in.
  • Connecticut River Valley
appears to retain original frame and stretchers

Provenance

Skinner, Boston, Massachusetts, American Furniture & Decorative Arts, February 17, 2008, sale 2397, lot 375.

Condition

An area of in-paint on the left side of the canvas close to the subject's face, with scattered flakes of in-paint on her cheek and under her chin, and scattered in-paint in the background. Cleaned and restretched.
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