Lot 107
  • 107

Paul Delaroche

Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 USD
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Description

  • Paul Delaroche
  • Man Seated on a Bench, Facing Left (Study en rapport for the Hemicycle Project)
  • black chalk with stumping, heightened with white gouache on wove
    paper.  Together with An Unmade Bed, 1846, signed and dated Delaroche 46 in pencil lower left, watercolor on wove paper. 2 works.
  • the first 9 1/8 by 6 1/4 in.; the second 3 1/8 by 5 3/4 in.
  • 24.1 by 15.9 cm; 7.9 by 14.6 cm

Provenance

The first: Collection of the artist's son, Horace-Paul Delaroche-Vernet, Paris (Lugt 1301)
Thence by descent through the Delaroche-Vernet family
W.M. Brady & Co., New York
Acquired from the above, 2000
The second: Shepherd Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above, 1993

Exhibited

The first: Yale 2010, no. 25
The second: New York, Shepherd Gallery, From Isabey to Noguchi: Paintings, Drawings & Sculpture, Fall 1993, no. 13
Yale 2010, no. 21

Condition

The first: In generally good condition aside from surface dirt, 2 repaired tears, upper right and lower right corners. Not examined out of frame. The second: In generally good condition aside from surface dirt, handling creases, a few minor discolorations. Not examined out of frame.
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