Old Master & 19th Century Paintings

Old Master & 19th Century Paintings

View full screen - View 1 of Lot 53. Le retour du bal masqué (The return from the masquerade ball).

Property from a Swiss Private Collection

Follower of Anne Vallayer-Coster

Le retour du bal masqué (The return from the masquerade ball)

Lot Closed

April 10, 11:50 AM GMT

Estimate

20,000 - 30,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Swiss Private Collection


Follower of Anne Vallayer-Coster

Le retour du bal masqué (The return from the masquerade ball)


oil on canvas

unframed: 63.1 x 76 cm.; 24⅞ x 29⅞ in.

framed: 74.7 x 87.7 cm.; 29⅜ x 34½ in.

Albert Besnard, Paris;

Private collection, Paris, by 1970;

Thence by descent to the present owner.

M. Tourneux, 'Une exposition rétrospective d’art féminin', in Gazette des Beaux Arts, I, 1908, pp. 292–93, reproduced (as Anne Vallayer Coster);

M. Roland Michel, Anne Vallayer-Coster 1744–1818, Paris 1970, p. 191, no. 277 (under rejected attributions, as possibly executed in the 19th century by a follower of Anne Vallayer Coster).

Paris, Lyceum Club, Le femmes peintres, 1908.