Live Auction 5925Victorian & 19th Century Pictures
Jean-Baptiste Madou (Belgian, 1796-1877) and Hilaire-Antoine Kreins (Luxembourger, 1806-1862)
Lot 88

Jean-Baptiste Madou (Belgian, 1796-1877) and Hilaire-Antoine Kreins (Luxembourger, 1806-1862)

Receiving her first Visitor

Closed20 October 1998

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GBP 11,500

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Jean-Baptiste Madou (Belgian, 1796-1877) and Hilaire-Antoine Kreins (Luxembourger, 1806-1862)
Receiving her first Visitor
signed by both artists and dated 'Madou & Kreins./1849.' (lower right)
oil on panel
15.5/8 x 18.7/8 in. (39.7 x 47.9 cm.)
Painted in 1849

Grand Duke Alexander Alexandrovich, Anichkov Palace, St. Petersburg, no. 342.

Specialist note

The present work was in the private collection of Grand Duke Alexander Alexandrovich (1845-1894) who, in 1881, became Tsar Alexander III. His engraved label is attached to the back of the panel as is a printed label from the Anichkov Palace with, in manuscript, the cipher of Alexander and an inscription stating that the work is no. 342 in His Highnesses personal collection.