François-Joseph Navez

Atelier de l'artiste J.F. Portaels ;
Comte Villain XIIII ;
Monsieur Morel de Westgaver ;
Monsieur Marchand ;
Vente Sotheby's à New York, le 5 mai 1999, lot 82 ;
Galerie Duputel, Paris, le 22 avril 2002

Londres, Crystal Palace, Sydenham, 1856 ;
François-Joseph Navez, La nostalgie de l'Italie, Charleroi, La Chaux-de-Fonds, Coutances, 1999- 2000, n° 228

Louis- Joseph Alvin, François-Joseph Navez, Sa vie, son oeuvre et sa correspondance, Bruxelles, 1870 ;
François-Joseph Navez, Essai de répertoire de l'oeuvre. Manuscrit de la Bibliothèque Royale Albert Ier - Cote MSS II 70/6, F°363-406 ; 
Richard Dupierreux, "Propos sur François-Joseph Navez" in Bulletin de la Classe des Beaux-Arts, Académie Royale de Belgique, Tome XXXIII, 1951 - 161 ; 
Alain Jacobs, catalogue de l'Association du Patrimoine Artistique, Bruxelles

- The work is painted on five cradled horizontal panels - Three very fine oblique slits starting from the left edge - Fine horizontal slit, starting from the right edge and ending in the middle of the dress of the young woman on the right side - Few small stains, and traces of dirt scattered on the surface of the painting - Few minor retouches along the left edge behind the shoulder of the elderly woman, and between her hands.visible under UV lamp - Some repaints along the large horizontal slit ; very small repaints scattered on the surface of the painting ; repaints between the man and the woman on the right, visible under the UV lamp - The painting has been recovered by a fluorescent varnish which dissimulates some repaints visible at the eye. Networks of cracks have been hidden by repaints, in particular in the sky and on the wall - Some cracks may thus have been hidden on and around the figures (not visible at eye and under the UV lamp)
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