$35,000
Estimate: $20,000 - $30,000
European Art & Old Master Paintings
Auction: February 23, 2021 12:00:00 PM EDT
Signed 'hipp. Petitjean' bottom right, oil on canvas, 25 1/2 x 19 3/4 in. (64.8 x 50.2cm)
Executed in 1901.
Provenance
Anonymous Sale, 1966.
(Possibly) Acquired from the above sale.
Collection of Gerald B. Cantor, Virginia.
A Gift from the above in 1969.
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia (accession no. 69.71).
Exhibited
"Exposition du Centenaire d'Hippolyte Petitjean," Galerie de l'Institut, Paris, 1955, no. 33 (as La Consolatrice).
Literature
Cahier d'Inventaire des Musées de Mâcon, Musées de Mâcon, Mâcon, 2015, p. 78 (illustrated as La Sympathie ou la Consolatrice).
Note
We wish to thank Mr. Stéphane Kempa for confirming the authenticity of the present work. A photo-certificate will be sold alongside the work, which will be included in the forthcoming Catalogue Raisonné of the Artist's work.