Lot 3272* - A156 19th Century Paintings - Friday 01 April 2011, 05.00 PM
JEAN-BAPTISTE MALLET
(Grasse 1759–1835 Paris)
Toilette de la mariée. Oil on canvas. Signed lower right: Mallet. 32 x 24.5 cm. Provenance:–Auction Drouot, Paris, Frédéric Mallet collection, 9. 2. 1938. Lot 154.–Tounsend Connolly collection.–Drouot auction, Paris, 21. 12. 1999. Lot 6.–European private collection. Literature:–Jean-Baptiste Mallet–Le chroniqueur mondain de la Première République, in: Connaissance des Arts, Issue 61. March 1957. Ill. p. 32.–Cuzin, J. P.: De David à Delacroix–La peinture française de 1774 à 1830. Exhibition cat. Grand Palais, Paris 1974. p. 8-15. We are grateful to Andrea Zanella for his confirmation of this painting on the basis of a photograph as a particularly high-quality and beautiful work by Jean-Baptiste Mallet.
Öl auf Leinwand.
Unten rechts signiert: Mallet.
32 x 24,5 cm.
CHF 25 000 / 35 000 | (€ 25 770 / 36 080)
Sold for CHF 28 800 (including buyer's premium)