Sleeping Odalisque with a parrot

Details

Attributed to M. Auguste, after Richard Parkes Bonnington (1802-1828)
Sleeping Odalisque with a parrot
pencil, watercolour and bodycolour with gum arabic
77/8 x 6in. (20 x 15.2cm.)

Provenance

Dr. Theodore Besterman; Christie's London, 14 December 1971, lot 9, (unsold), as 'Richard Parkes Bonington'.

Exhibited

London, Leger Galleries, English Watercolours and Drawings from the Collection of Theodore Besterman, June 1969, no.4, pl.1.

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Lot Essay

We are grateful to Patrick Noon for suggesting that the painting may be by M. Auguste, who also made a pastel copy of this composition and is a known copyist of Bonington. The original composition is in the Wallace Collection.

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