An Antibes woman carrying a basket

Details

Jean Louis Ernest Meissonier (French, 1815-1891)
An Antibes woman carrying a basket
oil on panel
10¾ x 7 in. (27.3 x 17.8 cm.)

Provenance

Anon. sale; Sotheby's New York, 20 July 1995, lot 201.

Literature

C. Hungerford, Ernest Meissonier: Master in his Genre, 1991, p. 162, fig. 67 (a related composition).

Special notice

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Lot Essay

The present painting is a study of an Antibes native, one of a number of keenly observed studies Meissonier painted circa 1868-1869.

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