Lot 142
  • 142

JEAN ANTOINE LAURENT | Portrait of a gentleman, seated in a woodland landscape, holding a sketchbook in his left hand, circa 1805

Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Laurent
  • Portrait of a gentleman, seated in a woodland landscape, holding a sketchbook in his left hand, circa 1805
  • Watercolour and bodycolour on ivory, gilt-metal mount, plush panel frame;bears signature: J.B. Augustin 1809
  • 217 by 135 mm.

Provenance

Jean Dollfus, Paris;
sale, Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, 20-21 May 1912, lot 159 (as Jean Baptiste Augustin);
Günther Muthmann, Wuppertal-Barmen,
his sale, Zurich, Sotheby's, 17 May 1979, lot 220 (as Jean Baptiste Augustin);
sale, Geneva, Sotheby's, 15 May 1986, lot 197 (as Jean Antoine Laurent)

Literature

Friesen (ed.), 2001, p. 416, no. 217;
du Pasquier, 2010, p. 119

Condition

Over all very good.
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