Lot 1306 , Louis Frederic Correard (1815-1858) Deux Eligantes de dos, 28.75 x 13.25in.
Louis Frederic Correard (1815-1858)
oil on canvas,
'Deux Eligantes de dos',
signed,
28.75 x 13.25in.
Estimate £700-1,000
Oil on a very thin fragile canvas with a very thin application of paint so that if the work is held up to bright light one can see numerous holes through the canvas as well as the weft of the canvas, one small 1cm scratch at the bottom of the pink skirt, in the bottom right corner the canvas is starting to come away from the stretcher and there is a further small hole equally in the right hand corner, no other physical damage noted, some slight undulation of the canvas which is also a little dirty, signed at 9 o'clock. No labels or inscriptions verso, mounted on the original stretcher but with a later gilt frame.
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Sold for £1,800