Sale 5433
London, South Kensington
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2 December 2008
Price realised
GBP 3,250
Estimate
Louis-Gabriel Moreau, called L'aîné (Paris 1740-1805) Figures in a courtyard signed 'L M.' on the plant container lower right black chalk, pen and brown ink and watercolour, watermark device 8¼ x 12 5/8 in. (209 x 321 mm.)
Provenance
M. Paulme (L.1910); Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, 13 May 1929, lot 171.
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Literature
G. Wildenstein, Louis Moreau, Paris, 1923, no. 52, pl. 27.
Exhibited
Paris, Exposition Hubert Robert et Louis Moreau, 1922, no. 113.
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