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Auction archive: Lot number 400

Thomas Couture (French 1815-1879)

Estimate
£800 - £1,200
ca. US$1,112 - US$1,668
Price realised:
£17,500
ca. US$24,332
Auction archive: Lot number 400

Thomas Couture (French 1815-1879)

Estimate
£800 - £1,200
ca. US$1,112 - US$1,668
Price realised:
£17,500
ca. US$24,332
Beschreibung:

Thomas Couture (French 1815-1879) Study for 'The Thorny Path' Signed with initials Oil on canvas 29 x 41cm; 11½ x 16in Provenance: Possibly the artist's family. with Shepherd Gallery, New York. Sotheby's, New York, 29th October 1987, Lot 64 Christie's, New York, 26th October 2005, Lot 149 Exhibited: Paris, Palais de l'Industrie, Catalogue des oeuvres de Thomas Couture esposés au Palais de l'Industrie, 1880, probably no. 112 or 113. Couture's Thorny Path of 1873 was commissioned by Henry C. Gibson and is now at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. The painting, for which this is a study, is a satire of decadent French Society, with a courtesan driving her carriage pulled by four male captives representing youth, riches, courage and poetry. The figure at the rear with the wine bottle pre-shadows her future Read more »

Auction archive: Lot number 400
Auction:
Datum:
7 Mar 2018
Auction house:
Woolley and Wallis Salisbury Salerooms Ltd
Castle Street 51-61
Salisbury Wiltshire, SP1 3SU
United Kingdom
enquiries@woolleyandwallis.co.uk
+44 (0)1722 424500
+44 (0)1722 424508
Beschreibung:

Thomas Couture (French 1815-1879) Study for 'The Thorny Path' Signed with initials Oil on canvas 29 x 41cm; 11½ x 16in Provenance: Possibly the artist's family. with Shepherd Gallery, New York. Sotheby's, New York, 29th October 1987, Lot 64 Christie's, New York, 26th October 2005, Lot 149 Exhibited: Paris, Palais de l'Industrie, Catalogue des oeuvres de Thomas Couture esposés au Palais de l'Industrie, 1880, probably no. 112 or 113. Couture's Thorny Path of 1873 was commissioned by Henry C. Gibson and is now at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. The painting, for which this is a study, is a satire of decadent French Society, with a courtesan driving her carriage pulled by four male captives representing youth, riches, courage and poetry. The figure at the rear with the wine bottle pre-shadows her future Read more »

Auction archive: Lot number 400
Auction:
Datum:
7 Mar 2018
Auction house:
Woolley and Wallis Salisbury Salerooms Ltd
Castle Street 51-61
Salisbury Wiltshire, SP1 3SU
United Kingdom
enquiries@woolleyandwallis.co.uk
+44 (0)1722 424500
+44 (0)1722 424508
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