Old Master Paintings & Works on Paper Day Auction
Old Master Paintings & Works on Paper Day Auction
Property from a Private Collection
Antoine de Favray
Portrait of a lady in Greek dress
Lot Closed
July 4, 10:52 AM GMT
Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property from a Private Collection
Antoine de Favray
Bagnolet 1706–1798 Malta
Portrait of a lady in Greek dress
signed, dated and located upper left: Favray a Const.ple / 1766
oil on canvas
unframed: 82.2 x 67.2 cm.; 32⅜ x 26½ in.
framed: 99.7 x 85.6 cm.; 39¼ x 33¾ in.
Anonymous sale, Monte Carlo, Sotheby's, 22 June 1986, lot 205 (identified as Portrait of the Countess of Vergennes);
Where acquired by the present owner.
A. Boppe, Les Peintres du Bosphore au XVIIIe siècle, Paris 1989, pp. 104–105, reproduced in colour;
S. Degiorgio and E. Fiorentino, Antoine Favray (1706–1798). A French Artist in Rome, Malta and Constantinople, Valletta 2004, pp. 109–11, reproduced in colour fig. 3.6.