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Property from a Private Collection

Ernest Meissonier

Néra, study for 'Portrait of a Sergeant’

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April 9, 12:45 PM GMT

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Property from a Private Collection


Jean Louis Ernest Meissonier

Lyon 1815–1891 Paris

Néra, study for 'Portrait of a Sergeant’


signed with initials lower right; stamped on the reverse with the vente 1893 Meissonier seal

oil on panel

unframed: 13 x 10 cm.; 5 x 4 in.

framed: 28 x 25 cm.; 11 x 9¾ in.

The artist;

His studio sale, Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, 12–15 May 1893, lot 275 (as Néra, assise sur son train d'arrière, le museau attentif. Étude pour le tableau: 'Portrait du Sergent' (1874))

Baron Blanquet de Fulde;

His sale, Paris, Hotel Drouot, 12 March 1900, lot 52 (as Néra);

Acquired by the grandfather of the present owners.