Lot 79
Lot 79
COLLECTION ROBERT COUTURIER
ÉCOLE FRANÇAISE DE LA PREMIÈRE MOITIÉ DU XIXe SIÈCLE, SUIVEUR DE FRANÇOIS-XAVIER FABRE

Portrait d'un homme au chapeau, à mi-corps

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EUR 10,000 - EUR 15,000
Closed: 29 Oct 2024
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ÉCOLE FRANÇAISE DE LA PREMIÈRE MOITIÉ DU XIXe SIÈCLE, SUIVEUR DE FRANÇOIS-XAVIER FABRE

Portrait d'un homme au chapeau, à mi-corps

Closed: 29 Oct 2024
Closed: 29 Oct 2024
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ÉCOLE FRANÇAISE DE LA PREMIÈRE MOITIÉ DU XIXe SIÈCLE, SUIVEUR DE FRANÇOIS-XAVIER FABRE
Portrait d'un homme au chapeau, à mi-corps
huile sur toile
95 x 76 cm (3718 x 2978 in.)
Provenance
Chez Robert Simon, New York.
Literature
L. Pellicer, M. Hilaire, François-Xavier Fabre (1766-1837) de Florence à Montpellier, Paris, 2008, p. 176, sous le cat. 65 (comme une 'réplique ovale de qualité équivalente' du tableau conservé au musée des Beaux-Arts de Montréal, no. inv. 2001-35), reproduit en couleurs fig. 1.
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FRENCH SCHOOL FIRST HALF 19th CENTURY, FOLLOWER OF FRANÇOIS-XAVIER FABRE, PORTRAIT OF A MAN WITH A HAT, HALF-LENGTH, OIL ON CANVAS

This charmingly nonchalant portrait is a copy after François-Xavier Fabre’s (1766-1837) Portrait of a young man in a red cape, now in the collection of the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Montreal (inv. no. 2001-35). Previously attributed to Jacques-Louis David (1748-1825), it was reattributed to the Montpellier artist when it first appeared on the art market in 1990.
Fabre’s work is rectangular in format, and the historic stretcher bar marks visible on the present painting to centre left and centre right indicate that it was also conceived of as a rectangle but that the canvas was later transformed into an oval.
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