FRANCE, 19TH CENTURY
Portrait of a scholar, probably the chemist and physiologist Antoine Laurent de Lavoisier.Oil on canvas.102.2 × 83.7 cm.Provenance:
- Sale Nagyházy, Budapest, 30.11.–1.12.1999.
- Swiss private collection.
Condition:
Oil on canvas. Label verso 'Szépművészeti Múzeum (Musée Hongrois des Beaux-Arts) 453/99'. Paint surface with a fine network of craquelure. Colour losses and colour abrasions in parts, particularly along the edges. Sporadic wear on the canvas.
Under UV: minimal retouching in the background and the figure's upper garment visible. Varnish appears in fluorescent green.
Dimensions with frame: 137 × 119.4 cm.
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Portrait of a scholar, probably the chemist and physiologist Antoine Laurent de Lavoisier.Oil on canvas.102.2 × 83.7 cm.Provenance:
- Sale Nagyházy, Budapest, 30.11.–1.12.1999.
- Swiss private collection.
Condition:
Oil on canvas. Label verso 'Szépművészeti Múzeum (Musée Hongrois des Beaux-Arts) 453/99'. Paint surface with a fine network of craquelure. Colour losses and colour abrasions in parts, particularly along the edges. Sporadic wear on the canvas.
Under UV: minimal retouching in the background and the figure's upper garment visible. Varnish appears in fluorescent green.
Dimensions with frame: 137 × 119.4 cm.