CHARLES REVEL | L’AVARE

CHARLES REVEL
French
1829 – circa 1880
L’AVARE

signed Ch. Revel (lower right)
oil on canvas
24 by 39¾ in.
61 by 101 cm

Condition Report:
Not examined out of the frame. Lined. The work presents well. There is a stable web of faint, fine craquelure, most noticeably in the figure's skin and clothing. Faint frame abrasion along upper edge, with associated tiny pin dot loss at upper center edge. Barely visible pin dot dent also at upper center. Under UV: finely applied inpainting to address craquelure visible in isolated areas throughout. Some reinforcement visible in the darker pigments of the patterning of the drapery in the background.

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Provenance:
Sale: Drouot Rive Gauche, Labat, Paris, March 24-26, 1980, lot 127

Sale: Hôtel des Ventes, Enghien, March 29, 1981, lot 132

Private Collection

Hubert Duchemin, Paris (by 2012)

Acquired from the above by the present owner