Lot 38
  • 38

Ecole Française du XVIIIe siècle

Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 EUR
bidding is closed

Description

  • Portrait de Jésus-Christ
  • Pastel

Provenance

Offert par Madame Victoire de France à Jean Armand de Bessuejoules de Roquelaure, évêque de Senlis en 1778;
Offert par ce dernier aux religieuses du couvent de la présentation de Senlis en 1783.

Condition

In a wooden frame molding and sculpting, stamped INFROIT. The pastel is in moderately satisfactory state of conservation. It need to be refixed in its frame. There are several micro-tears of one to two centimetres long mainly in the lower right corner. There is an addition of a little piece of paper, made as a pentimenty, in the centre of the text.
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