Lot 98
  • 98

LOUIS-GABRIEL MOREAU, CALLED MOREAU L'AÎNÉ | A lady sitting in a river landscape, circa 1785

Estimate
800 - 1,200 GBP
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Description

  • A lady sitting in a river landscape, circa 1785
  • Watercolour and bodycolour on paper, gilt-metal mount
  • 66 mm. Diam

Provenance

David David-Weill (1871-1952), inv. no. 697, until 1936;
with Wildenstein, Paris;
Sir Charles Clore (1905-1979), London;
his executor's sale, London, Sotheby's, 10 November 1986, lot 40

Exhibited

London, 1961, no. 147

Literature

Gillet, et al., 1957, p. 242, no. 147, illust. p. 243;
Friesen (ed.), 2001, p. 424, fig. 314, (as Henri Sallembier)

Condition

Two tiny areas of pigment loss in sky area between 1 o'clock and 2 o'clock. Some bleached flecks in distant mountains.
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