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Property from the Collection of Phyllis and C. Douglas Dillon

ATTRIBUTED TO JEAN-SIMON FOURNIER | "LA DAME AUX ROSES"

Lot Closed

February 4, 06:57 PM GMT

Estimate

6,000 - 8,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from the Collection of Phyllis and C. Douglas Dillon

ATTRIBUTED TO JEAN-SIMON FOURNIER

Paris active 1791 - 1799

"LA DAME AUX ROSES"


bears signature lower left: L. Boilly

oil on canvas

canvas: 28¾ by 23½ in.; 73 by 59.7 cm.

framed: 35½ by 29 in.; 90.2 by 73.7 cm.

Louis Rothschild, Vienna;

Confiscated from the above, October 20, 1939 and originally allocated for the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna;

Intercepted and re-allocated for the Kunstmuseum Linz (inv. LR 717), July 31, 1940 and stored at Aussee Salt Mine (inv. 3057);

Munich Central Collecting Point (inv. 4408) (as “V.Boilly [Portrait of a Lady])”, July 15, 1945;

Repatriated to the Austrian government, May 6, 1946 and restituted to the Rothschild family in August 1947;

Rene Fribourg, by 1954;

By whom sold, London, Sotheby’s, 26 June 1963, lot 71 (as Boilly).

H. Harrisse, Louis Boilly: Peintre, Dessinateur, et Lithographe, Paris 1898, p. 97, cat. no. 155 (as Boilly);

F.J.B. Watson, The Wrightsman Collection of Furniture, 1966, vol. I, cat. no. 71 (as Boilly).

Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute, Pictures of everyday life: genre painting in Europe, 1500-1900, 14 October - 12 December 1954 (as Boilly).