Lot Details
Lot 524
French School
17th-18th Century
The Great Flood
Oil on canvas
15 1/4 x 19 3/4 inches (38.8 x 50.2 cm)
Provenance:
The Patti Birch Trust
[Sale] Sotheby's Paris, Jun. 25, 2008, lot 81
Purchased from the above sale by the present owner
Private collection, New York
The suggestion has been made that this work may be by Nicolas-Pierre Loir (1624-1679), a student of Sebastian Bourdon, Simon Vouet and Nicolas Poussin.
C
Estimate: $2,000 - $4,000
Sold for $2,520 (includes buyer's premium)
Additional Notes & Condition Report
Glue relined. An area of repair (roughly 1 x 1 inch) in the sky on the upper right edge; a much smaller repair in the sky nearby. A third repair (1/2 x 1/2 inch) near the lower left corner. Scattered touches of careful restoration elsewhere. Some lines reinforced. All of these done to a high professional standard.
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