Lot 85
  • 85

François-Edouard Bertin

Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 USD
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Description

  • François-Edouard Bertin
  • Landscape in the Forest of Fontainebleau
  • inscribed Fontainebleau in brown ink upper left

  • black chalk on wove paper.  Together with Pierre Antoine Mongin, Bonfire in the Garden of Fontainebleau, inscribed à Fontainebleau upper right, pencil and brown wash on paper. 2 works.

Provenance

The first: Jacques Fischer and Chantal Kiener, Paris
Acquired from the above, 1979
The second: William H. Schab, New York
Acquired from the above, 2008

Exhibited

The first: Yale, 2010 no. 94
The second: Yale 2010, no. 36

Condition

The first: In generally good condition aside from some surface dirt and minor folds, and a few tiny stains. not examined out of frame. The second: In good condition aside from paper losses in the right corners, probably where previously glued down, with some minor discoloration in the edges. not examined out of frame.
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