View of a charity sale for the victims of Guadeloupe in the Grand Salon of the Palais-Royal, Paris

Details

Eugène-Louis Lami (1800-1890)
View of a charity sale for the victims of Guadeloupe in the Grand Salon of the Palais-Royal, Paris
pencil, watercolour, bodycolour heightened with gold
372 x 520 mm.

Provenance

King Louis-Philippe, with his stencilled inventory number '5635' on the backing board, by descent to his second son
The Duc de Nemours, with label 'Mgr le Duc de Nemours' on a label attached to the backing, by descent to his daughter
Princesse Marguerite d'Orléans, who married Prince Wladyslaw Czartoryski, by descent to their son
Prince Adam Ludwik Czartoryski, Hôtel Lambert, Paris, by descent until 1975.

Literature

P.-A. Lemoisne, L'oeuvre d'Eugène Lami: essai d'un catalogue raisonné, Paris, 1914, no. 493.

Special notice

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Lot Essay

This drawing was commissioned by King Louis-Philippe on 24 July 1843, according to the register of the Commandes et Acquisitions Royales, and Lami was paid 1,000 francs. It depicts a charity sale organised for the victims of an earthquake that took place in Point-à-Pitre on 8 February 1843. Point-à-Pitre was the capital of the French colony of Guadeloupe.
A drawing with a similar stencilled inventory number, accompanied by the number '428' on the backboard, was sold at Christie's New York, 22 May 1997, lot 41.

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