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Queen Victoria in the drawing room at Cinier; Queen Victoria arriving in Nice; King Edward VII, Queen Alexandra and the Duke of Clarence on the deck of a ship; Statue of Lord Roberts, unveiled at Calcutta by the Viceroy Lord Elgin; and King Edward VII, seated in a carriage beside President Loubet
Details
Adolphe Forestier (French, 1801-1885)
Queen Victoria in the drawing room at Cinier; Queen Victoria arriving in Nice; King Edward VII, Queen Alexandra and the Duke of Clarence on the deck of a ship; Statue of Lord Roberts, unveiled at Calcutta by the Viceroy Lord Elgin; and King Edward VII, seated in a carriage beside President Loubet
the first signed, inscribed and dated 'AFORESTIER/Cinier 21 March 97'(lower left); the second signed, inscribed and dated 'AFORESTIER/ NICE 99' (lower left); the third signed 'AFORESTIER' (lower left); the fifth signed with monogram (lower left) and indistinctly inscribed (lower right)
pencil, watercolour and bodycolour on paper
19 ½ x 15 ¾ in. (49.5 x 40 cm.); and smaller
(5)
Queen Victoria in the drawing room at Cinier; Queen Victoria arriving in Nice; King Edward VII, Queen Alexandra and the Duke of Clarence on the deck of a ship; Statue of Lord Roberts, unveiled at Calcutta by the Viceroy Lord Elgin; and King Edward VII, seated in a carriage beside President Loubet
the first signed, inscribed and dated 'AFORESTIER/Cinier 21 March 97'(lower left); the second signed, inscribed and dated 'AFORESTIER/ NICE 99' (lower left); the third signed 'AFORESTIER' (lower left); the fifth signed with monogram (lower left) and indistinctly inscribed (lower right)
pencil, watercolour and bodycolour on paper
19 ½ x 15 ¾ in. (49.5 x 40 cm.); and smaller
(5)
Provenance
(3) Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 22 May 1997, part lot 535.
Literature
(1)The Illustrated London News, 18 March 1899, not traced.
(2)The Illustrated London News, 27 March 1897, not traced.
(4)The Illustrated London News, 2 March 1899, not traced.
(2)The Illustrated London News, 27 March 1897, not traced.
(4)The Illustrated London News, 2 March 1899, not traced.
