Master Paintings and Drawings

Master Paintings and Drawings

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Sold to Benefit the Acquisition Fund of the Cleveland Museum of Art, Sold Without Reserve

Eugène-Louis Lami

Figures on the staircase of a palace

No reserve

Lot Closed

October 22, 05:14 PM GMT

Estimate

1,000 - 1,500 USD

Lot Details

Description

Sold to Benefit the Acquisition Fund of the Cleveland Museum of Art, Sold Without Reserve

Attributed to Eugène-Louis Lami

Paris 1800 - 1890

Figures on the staircase of a palace


Pen and brown ink and watercolor

173 by 136 mm; 6¾ by 5⅜ in.

5

With Shepherd Gallery, New York, by 1975,
where acquired by Muriel Butkin, Shaker Heights, OH

Sold together with:


Attributed to Mariano Fortuny y Carbó (1838-1874)

Study of a crouching man

Black chalk heightened with white chalk;

bears old attribution in pencil, lower left: Fortuny

159 by 120 mm; 6 1/2 by 5 in.


Attributed to Jean-Baptiste Hilaire (1753-1822)

Five men and a dog, on a shoreline

Pen and brown ink and wash, over pencil;

bears old attribution, verso: Hilaire

197 by 318 mm; 7 3/4 by 12 1/2 in.


Provenance:

With Galerie Fischer-Kiener, Paris, by 1977,

where acquired by Muriel Butkin, Shaker Heights, OH


Attributed to Pierre Andrieu (1821-1892)

Man leading a team of horses

Black chalk and watercolor;

signed(?) in black chalk, lower left: Andrieu

171 by 238 mm; 6 3/4 by 9 3/8 in.


French School, 19th Century

Four studies of tiger heads

Black, red and white chalk;

inscribed with color notations and inscribed, verso: French School and Delacroix / collection Degas

195 by 315 mm; 7 5/8 by 12 1/2 in.


Provenance:

Possibly Edgar Degas, Paris;

Carl Robert Rudolf, London;

with Jan Milner, New York,

where acquired by Muriel Butkin, Shaker Heights, OH