Lot 445
  • 445

VICTOR GABRIEL GILBERT | Crémière en hiver

Estimate
35,000 - 50,000 USD
bidding is closed

Description

  • Victor Gabriel Gilbert
  • Crémière en hiver
  • signed Victor Gilbert (lower left) 
  • oil on canvas 
  • 22 by 18 in.
  • 56 by 46 cm

Provenance

Private Collection, France 
Acquired from the above 

Exhibited

Bordeaux, Société des Amis des Arts, 1888 

Condition

Original unlined condition. The work presents well. There is a stable web of faint craquelure across the picture surface and a few isolated dots of discoloration. There is some minor debris in the paint layer. Frame abrasion with associated discoloration is visible along the lower and upper right edges. Under UV: an unevenly applied varnish fluoresces green. There are sparsely applied pin dots of inpainting in the snow near the lower edge and some scattered finely applied inpainting to address prior frame abrasion along the upper edge.
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Catalogue Note

We would like to thank Noé Willer for kindly confirming the authenticity of this work, which will be included in his forthcoming Victor Gabriel Gilbert catalogue raisonné.