拍品 127
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CHARLES HÉNARD | Portrait of two brothers

估價
3,000 - 5,000 GBP
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描述

  • Portrait of two brothers
  • Watercolour and bodycolour on ivory, gilt-metal mounts, set into the lid of a lacquer box;signed and dated lower right: Chr Hénard / 1800 [?]
  • 86 mm. Diam.

來源

Edouard Warneck, Paris;
sale, Vienna, Leo Schidlof's Auction House, 11 April 1924, lot 70;
David David-Weill (1871-1952), inv. no. 485, until 1936;
with Wildenstein, Paris;
Sir Charles Clore (1905-1979);
his executor's sale, London, Sotheby's, 17 March 1986, lot 106 

展覽

London, 1961, no. 90

出版

Gillet, et al., 1957, p. 158 & 159, no. 90;
Schidlof, 1964, vol. I, p. 346;
Friesen (ed.), 2001, p. 410, no. 169

Condition

Some glue stains at 4 o'clock near signature and left hand of elder brother. Rubbing has caused a sheen around the borders. Minor paint loss between eight and nine o'clock. Lacquer is beginning to craze and there is a small - 1 cm nic in the base.
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