Master Paintings
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Property from a Private Collection, Boston
Louis-Léopold Boilly
Portrait of a Woman Wearing a Fur Stole and White Cap
Auction Closed
May 22, 04:23 PM GMT
Estimate
15,000 - 20,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property from a Private Collection, Boston
Louis-Léopold Boilly
La Bassée 1761 - 1845 Paris
Portrait of a Woman Wearing a Fur Stole and White Cap
probably paper laid down on canvas
canvas: 8 ¾ by 6 ⅞ in.; 22.2 by 17.5 cm.
framed: 12 ¾ by 10 ⅝ in.; 32.4 by 27.0 cm.
Probably acquired by Forsyth Wickes (1876-1964), New York, Tuxedo Park, and Newport, in the first half of the twentieth century;
Thence by descent to the present collector.
This unpublished oil sketch, one of the artist's "petits portraits" will be included in the forthcoming supplement to the catalogue raisonné of Louis Léopold Boilly's works by Étienne Bréton and Pascal Zuber.
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