19th-Century European Art
19th-Century European Art
Property of The Bass, Miami Beach to benefit the John and Johanna Bass Art Acquisition Fund
Gyula Benczúr
Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette with Family at Versailles (October 6, 1789)
Live auction begins on:
February 5, 07:00 PM GMT
Estimate
30,000 - 50,000 USD
Bid
20,000 USD
Lot Details
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Property of The Bass, Miami Beach to benefit the John and Johanna Bass Art Acquisition Fund
Gyula Benczúr
Hungarian 1844 - 1920
Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette with Family at Versailles (October 6, 1789)
signed lower right: Benczúr Gyula / München 1872
oil on canvas
canvas: 57 ½ by 86 ⅝ in.; 146.1 by 220 cm
framed: 63 ¼ by 92 ⅝ in.; 160.7 by 235.3 cm
With E. & A. Silberman Galleries, New York;
By whom sold, Parke-Bernet Galleries Inc., New York, 27 November 1968, lot 243 (as Louis XVI and his Family);
Where acquired by John and Johanna Bass Collection, New York, 1968-1979;
Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, 1979.
F. v. Boetticher, Painters’ Works of the 19th Century, vol. I/1, Dresden 1891, p. 74, no. 3.
U. Thieme & F. Becker, General Encyclopedia of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present, vol. III, Leipzig 1909, p. 289.
M. Russell, Paintings and Textiles of the Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach 1990, p. 102-103, illustrated.
Miami, Bass Museum of Art, The Golden Age of Emperor Franz Joseph: Austrian Art from the Bass Collection, 8 November 2006-1 February 2007
Miami, Bass Museum of Art, An Invitation to LOOK, 1 April-3 July 2011
Miami, Bass Museum of Art, Pascale Marthine Tayou Beautiful, 29 October 2017-21 May 2018