$1,000
Estimate: $2,000 - $3,000
Gentlemen Collectors: The Lucas Family of Baltimore
Auction: May 23, 2018 11:00:00 AM EDT
Signed 'Seignac' bottom left, oil on canvas
16 1/8 x 13 in. (41 x 33cm)
Provenance: The Lucas family Collections, Baltimore, Maryland.
George Lucas, likely acquired circa 1865
Thence by descent to Bertha Lucas (died 1943).
Bequeathed by Bertha Lucas to the manager of Lucas Brothers, Jesse G. Kaufman, 1943.
Thence by descent to the present owner.
On 14 October, 1865, Lucas' diary notes: "took panel of three figures of Seignac." It is possible that the offered lot is the mentioned work. (cf The Diary of George A. Lucas: An American Art Agent in Paris, 1857-1909, Volume 2, page 204).