Jean-Pierre Saint-Ours

Geneva, Musée d'Art et d'Historique, Jean-Pierre Saint-Ours: Un peintre genevois dans l'Europe des Lumières, 15 September 2015 - 28 February 2016.

The paint surface is clean and the painting is presentable in as is. There is overall excellent preservation of the paint surface with nice impasto and fresh colors. Under UV light: there is some retouching to the upper right corner where the corner of the paper may have been creased or bent. There are a few other scattered very small, cosmetic retouches here and there, but nothing significant. In an elaborately carved and gilt wood frame.
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This painting will be included in the forthcoming catalogue raisonné on the artist by Anne d'Herdt as cat. no. 1779-A.  This work is a preparatory oil sketch for the painting of this subject, executed in 1779, in the collection of the Musée d'art et d'histoire, Geneva (oil on canvas, 111 by 143 cm.).