True Connoisseurship: The Collection of Ezra & Cecile Zilkha
True Connoisseurship: The Collection of Ezra & Cecile Zilkha
LE LEVER, LA TOILETTE
Auction Closed
November 20, 10:09 PM GMT
Estimate
15,000 - 20,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
PIERRE ANTOINE BAUDOUIN
LE LEVER
LA TOILETTE
a pair, both gouache on paper
each: 9 1/2 by 7 3/4 in.; 24.1 by 19.7 cm
Marmontel Collection sale;
Gustave Mühlbacher,
His sale, Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, 15-17 May 1899, lots 66 (La Toilette) and 67 (Le Lever);
Possibly the Joseph Bardac Collection, Paris;
With Seligmann and Wildenstein, by 1923;
Mortimer L. Schiff;
Anonymous sale, London, Sotheby’s, 1 July 1991, lots 40 (La Toilette) and 41 (Le Lever)
E. Bocher, Pierre Antoine Baudouin, Paris 1875, p. 47, no. 48 and p. 31, no. 29
The compositions of both works are also known through engravings, in reverse, by Nicolas Ponce (1746-1831) and Jean Massard (1740-1822), both of which date to 1771.