Lot 30
  • 30

Ferdinand Roybet

Estimate
18,000 - 25,000 USD
bidding is closed

Description

  • Ferdinand Roybet
  • The Cellist
  • signed F. Roybet (lower left)
  • oil on canvas
  • 43 1/2 by 35 1/4 in.
  • 110.5 by 89.5 cm

Provenance

Collection of the Comtesse Munier-Jolain
Lair-Dubreuil (and sold, her sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, December 9, 1910, lot 84)
Sale: Hôtel Drouot, Paris, February 19, 1975, lot 13
Private Collection, Belgium

Condition

Lined; faint craquelure visible throughout as is horizontal stretcher bar mark. Under UV: Old varnish fluoresces unevenly throughout, inpainting fluoresces to address frame abrasion, isolated reinforcements to figure, cello, and background.
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