Old Master Day Sale including Old Master Paintings, Drawings and British Works on Paper
Old Master Day Sale including Old Master Paintings, Drawings and British Works on Paper
Property from a Private Collection
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July 29, 01:12 PM GMT
Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 GBP
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Property from a Private Collection
FIRMIN MASSOT
Geneva 1766 - 1849
PORTRAIT OF ANDRIENNE-CONSTANCE BOURDILLON (1792–1836), HALF-LENGTH, IN A WHITE DRESS
oil on canvas
unframed: 31.1 x 27 cm.; 12¼ x 10⅝ in.
framed: 52 x 45.5 cm.; 20½ x 17⅞ in.
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Jacques Chenevière, Hauterive, Cologny (according to a label on the reverse);
Anonymous sale, Geneva, Bernard Piguet, Hôtel des Ventes, 11 October 2006, lot 965;
Anonymous sale, New York, Sotheby's, 26 January 2017, lot 249, where acquired.
Geneva, Musée d'art et d'histoire de Genève, Exposition d'œuvres du peintre genevois Firmin Massot (1766–1849) appartenant à des collections privées, 1927, no. 72.
Andrienne Bourdillon was married in 1812 to Jean-Jacques-Caton Chenevière (1783–1871), the noted theologist who taught at the Academy of Geneva, where he also served as rector.
We are grateful to Valérie Louzier-Gentaz for endorsing the attribution to Massot, on the basis of digital images, and for dating the portrait to circa 1810.