Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix
Portrait of Charles-Etienne-Raymond Victor de Verninac , 1825 (Executed)
Lot #73 |
2018-10-31 |
Doyle, New York
English & Continental Furniture / Old Masters / Russian Works of Art
Category:
Painting
Estimate:
USD 300,000 - 400,000 (currency of sale)
Price Sold:
Auction Details
Auction house: Doyle
Auction number: 7807
Auction name: English & Continental Furniture / Old Masters / Russian Works of Art
Auction type: Fine Art
Location: New York
Start date: 2018-10-31
Currency: USD
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Lot Description
Details
Genre: Portrait
Department: Painting & Works on Paper
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Dimensions: 23 Âľ x 17 7/8 inches (60.4 x 45.8 cm)
Item measurements:
Height In Centimeters:
60.4
Width In Centimeters:
45.8
Height In Inches:
23.625
Width In Inches:
17.875
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Year notes: Executed in 1825-26.
Provenance
The artist Collection of the sitter, his nephew Apparently sold, along with other personal effects, by the Public Administrator of New York, where the sitter died in 1834 Private collection, Connecticut Private collection, New York
Condition
Generally in very good condition, with face and hands very well preserved and clothing in good condition; on original 19th century Haro stretcher; wax relining; small amount of inpainting on right trouser leg, lower center; one tiny touch of inpainting on sitter's left cheek; curls above his left ear reinforced; some inpainting in craquelure on the left side and in the dark areas in the clouds. The upper left corner restored. Trees at upper right reinforced. Some inpainting along stretcher marks, mostly at left
Exhibited
Bloomington, Indiana University Art Museum, 2006 Northampton, Smith College Art Museum, 2006-07
Literature
James H. Rubin, "Eugene Delacroix's Portrait of Charles de Verninac, 1825-26," Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide, New Discoveries , Vol. 5, 1 (Spring 2006) Eik Kahng, Delacroix and the Matter of Finish (New Haven & London, Yale University Press, 2013), p. 69, fig. 6 Indiana University Art Museum Bulletin, Spring 2006, illus.