European Paintings, Drawings & Sculpture

JEAN LOUIS ERNEST MEISSONIER | LE TROMPETTE DE 1807

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April 22, 08:50 PM GMT

Estimate

12,000 - 18,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

JEAN LOUIS ERNEST MEISSONIER

French

1815 - 1891

LE TROMPETTE DE 1807

inscribed 14 (lower right) and 18 (lower left); with the Vente Meissonier 1893 wax seal (on the reverse)

oil on panel

panel: 9 by 4½ in.; 22.9 by 11.4 cm

framed: 13⅜ by 8⅞ in.; 34 by 22.5 cm

The artist (and sold, his studio sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, May 12-15, 1893, lot 61, illustrated)

Schweitzer Galleries, New York, no. 4527 (as Trumpeter in Rose Military Coat Mounted)

Sale: Christie's East, February 14, 1995, lot 23, illustrated (as The Battle Cry)

Private Collection, Jackson, Wyoming

Thence by descent