HENRI ROUSSEAU | CAVALIERS ARABES

Property from a Private Collection, Toronto
HENRI ROUSSEAU
French
1875 - 1933
CAVALIERS ARABES

signed Henri Rousseau and dated 28 (lower right)
oil on canvas
21½ by 28¾ in.
54.6 by 73 cm

Condition Report:
Not examined out of the frame. Currently unlined. There is bumping and pulling of the canvas at upper left and upper center. A few isolated areas of faint craquelure and a vertical stretcher bar mark in the sky at upper center. Under UV: varnish fluoresces green unevenly. Though they are not clearly visible under UV, there appear to be extensive, broad areas of restoration throughout the sky, figures, and foreground.

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Provenance:
Private Collection, Argentina