JULES JOSEPH LEFEBVRE | AN ITALIAN GIRL WITH AN ORANGE
Estimate:
6,000 - 8,000 USD
JULES JOSEPH LEFEBVRE
French
1836 - 1912
AN ITALIAN GIRL WITH AN ORANGE
signed Jules Lefebvre (upper right)
oil on panel
18⅛ by 11⅝ in.
46 by 29.5 cm
Oil on stable panel. The work presents well, aside from scattered barely visible very fine craquelure and some pin dots of abrasion on her skirt and just above her head. There is a pin dot accretion on her cheek and a pin dot of loss at lower center near the edge. Under UV: heavy varnish fluoresces green. No apparent issues. Ready to hang in its current state.
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E.E. Dale Schaeffer, Miami Beach, Florida
Sale: Christie's, Paris, December 15, 2004, lot 576, illustrated
Fletcher/ Copenhaver Fine Art, Fredericksburg, Virginia
Acquired from the above by the present owner circa 2009