19th Century European Paintings
19th Century European Paintings
PROPERTY FROM A FRENCH PRIVATE COLLECTION
Auction Closed
July 9, 02:03 PM GMT
Estimate
50,000 - 70,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property from a French Private Collection
GIOVANNI BOLDINI
Italian
1842 - 1931
Ecstasy
oil on panel
17.5 by 27cm., 6¾ by 10½in.
The authenticity of this work has been confirmed by Museo Archives Giovanni Boldini Macchiaioli, Pistoia.
Guillaume de Gontaut-Biron, marquis de Biron, Paris and Geneva (Gontaut-Biron (1859-1939) was an avid collector of Old Masters and nineteenth-century art. In 1914 over three hundred works from his collection were sold at Galerie Georges Petit, Paris. A portrait in black chalk of the marquis by Boldini is now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (no. 1979.183))
Gérard de Soriol
Purchased from the above in 1996 by the father of the present owner; thence by descent