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Property from a Distinguished Swedish Private Collection
Alexander Roslin
Portrait of a gentleman, three-quarter-length, wearing a blue silk suit, sitting in a chair
Lot Closed
July 8, 02:47 PM GMT
Estimate
30,000 - 40,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property from a Distinguished Swedish Private Collection
Alexander Roslin
Malmö 1718 - 1793 Paris
Portrait of a gentleman, three-quarter-length, wearing a blue silk suit, sitting in a chair
signed and dated lower right: P.t p. le chev. Roslin. / 1786.
oil on canvas
unframed: 93 x 73.5 cm.; 36⅝ x 28⅞ in.
framed: 111.1 x 91.8 cm.; 43¾ x 36⅛ in.
Anonymous sale, Paris, Drouot, 11 May 1953, lot 90, to Kugel;
With Jacques Kugel, Paris;
From whom acquired for the present collection by 1957;
Thence by descent.
With Jacques Kugel, Paris;
From whom acquired for the present collection by 1957;
Thence by descent.
G.W. Lundberg, Roslin, Malmö 1957, vol. II, p. 101, cat. no. 585, reproduced plate 179.