True Connoisseurship: The Collection of Ezra & Cecile Zilkha

True Connoisseurship: The Collection of Ezra & Cecile Zilkha

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PIERRE ANTOINE BAUDOUIN

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

Please note that the present works are by Pierre Antoine Baudouin and not Nicolas Lafrensen as stated in the printed catalogue. For further information on the provenance and literature of the works offered in this lot please refer to the online catalogue entry at sothebys.com.

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.