Claude Lefebvre
Portrait of a gentleman, half-length, holding a pair of gloves
Estimate:
10,000
Property from the Collection of David and Louise Carter
Claude Lefebvre
Fontainebleau 1632 – 1675 Paris
Portrait of a gentleman, half-length, holding a pair of gloves
oil on canvas
canvas: 38 3/4 by 30 in.; 98.5 by 78.2 cm.
framed: 49 3/4 by 40 1/2 in.; 126.4 by 102.9 cm.
The canvas is lined and remains stable. The paint layer is in very good condition, with the subtle molding of the face and hands still rich and clear. Under ultraviolet light there is some retouching in the blacks but none visible in the face, hands, or costume details. The painting is in excellent condition and is offered in a carved giltwood frame.
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Mr. Julius H. Weitzner, by 1946;
With Jaques Seligmann and Co., by 1953;
Akron Institute of Arts, Ohio;
By whom sold, Sotheby's Parke Bernet, New York, 12 January 1979, lot 88;
There acquired.
Palm Beach, The Society of the Four Arts, Portraits, Figures and Landscapes, January 12 - February 4, 1951, no. 27;
Des Moines, Iowa, Des Moines Art Center, Portraits and Figure Paintings by French Artists of the Seventeenth, Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, December 5 - 30, 1952;
New York, Jacques Seligmann and Co., Exhibition of Seventeenth Century French Paintings and Drawings, 23 November - 12 December 1953, no. 7;
Birmingham, Alabama, Birmingham Museum of Art, The Reformation and Counter-Reformation, September 15 - October 15, 1954.