HENRI DÉSIRÉ VAN BLARENBERGHE | A pair of military scenes:A) An encampment, with three mounted soldiers, and three others gaming;B) A military convoy by a stream

With Hazlitt, Gooden & Fox, London, by 1996;
sale, New York, Sotheby's, 23 January 2001, lot 299 (as Louis-Nicolas van Blarenberghe)

M. Maillet Chassagne and I. de Château-Thierry, Catalogue raisonné des œuvres des Van Blarenberghe 1680-1826, Lille 2004, pp. 495 and 500, nos. 5-120-4 and 5-150-1, both reproduced

Both partially laid down to an old decorative mount and sold in modern giltwood frames. A) Some toning to the upper edge and scattered foxing to the sky. There are some minor abrasions to the extremities, otherwise in good condition with the gouache in predominantly fresh throughout. B) Some minor toning to the upper edge and some very minor foxing to the sky. There are some minor abrasions to the extremities, otherwise in good condition.
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