$15,405
Continental School, 19th Century Portrait of a Girl with Her Dog Unsigned, inscribed "No. 12/ John Kendall Esqr." on a label affixed to the strainer, with a label from Le Garde Meuble Public, Bedel & Cie, Paris, affixed to the frame on the reverse. Oil on canvas, 26 x 21 1/2 in. (66.0 x 54.6 cm), framed. Condition: Lined, craquelure. Spots of retouch around the perimeter of the canvas. Retouch on the right side of the child's cheek, nose and eye, and around the dog's tail. There is a narrow horizontal line, perhaps an old crease, through the center of the composition, which is visible on the left side in the white drapery and visible under UV (with retouch) on the right side. Craquelure in the child's cheek on the left and in her brow.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2010-05-21