Lot 112
  • 112

MARIE-GABRIELLE CAPET | A mother and child in a landscape

Estimate
6,000 - 8,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • A mother and child in a landscape
  • Watercolour and bodycolour on ivory, silver-gilt mount;signed and dated upper right: M.G Capet 1793
  • 85 mm. Diam.

Provenance

Edouard Warneck (1834-1924), Paris, 1911;
his executor's sale, Vienna, Leo Schidlof Auction House, 19 November 1924, lot 39;
Greta Shield Heckett (1899-1976), Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, by 1964;
her executor's sale, Monaco, Sotheby's, 4 May 1977, lot 93;
Robert Dows Brewster (1916-1995), New York;
his executor's sale, Geneva, Sotheby's, 15 November 1995, lot 327

Exhibited

Vienna, 1924, no. 130;
London, 1928, no. 1184;
London, 1932, no. 99;
London, 1933, no. 246
Caen, 2014, no. 167, fig. B

Literature

Doria, 1934, p. 74, no. 35, pl. XX, no. 32;
Schidlof, 1964, vol. I, p. 126, vol. III, pl. 104;
Friesen (ed.), 2001, p. 401-402, fig. 75;
Lemoine-Bouchard, 2008, p. 138

Condition

In very good order. There is a little bit of grim on the margins.
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