
Property from a Swiss Private Collection
Le retour du bal masqué (The return from the masquerade ball)
Lot Closed
April 10, 11:50 AM GMT
Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property from a Swiss Private Collection
Follower of Anne Vallayer-Coster
Le retour du bal masqué (The return from the masquerade ball)
oil on canvas
unframed: 63.1 x 76 cm.; 24⅞ x 29⅞ in.
framed: 74.7 x 87.7 cm.; 29⅜ x 34½ in.
Albert Besnard, Paris;
Private collection, Paris, by 1970;
Thence by descent to the present owner.
Paris, Lyceum Club, Le femmes peintres, 1908.
M. Tourneux, 'Une exposition rétrospective d’art féminin', in Gazette des Beaux Arts, I, 1908, pp. 292–93, reproduced (as Anne Vallayer Coster);
M. Roland Michel, Anne Vallayer-Coster 1744–1818, Paris 1970, p. 191, no. 277 (under rejected attributions, as possibly executed in the 19th century by a follower of Anne Vallayer Coster).
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