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Property from a Swiss Private Collection

Follower of Anne Vallayer-Coster

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).