HOWARD PYLE | AT THE SAME TIME HE EXTENDED TOWARD KING LOUIS THE PRECIOUS MEMORIAL

HOWARD PYLE
1853 - 1911
AT THE SAME TIME HE EXTENDED TOWARD KING LOUIS THE PRECIOUS MEMORIAL

signed H. Pyle (lower right) and inscribed indistinctly (on the reverse)
oil on panel
18 by 12 ¼ inches
(45.7 by 31.1 cm)
Painted in 1899.

Condition Report:
There is minor frame abrasion at edges and the surface of the work appears to be slightly dirty. There is a pindot of loss in the hair of the man in the right foreground and the panel is slightly bowed. Under UV: there is inpainting to address frame abrasion and the work retains an uneven varnish. There appear to be a few pindots of inpainting in the black jacket of the man at far right.

Provenance:
Sommerville Manning Gallery, Greenville, Delaware

Acquired by the present owner from the above