JULES BRETON | PORTRAIT D'HOMME (STUDY FOR UN GRAND PARDON BRETON)

JULES BRETON
French
1827 - 1906
PORTRAIT D'HOMME (STUDY FOR UN GRAND PARDON BRETON)

signed Jules Breton. and dated 68. (lower left)
oil on canvas
11⅞ by 9¼ in.
30.2 by 23.5 cm

Condition Report:
Not examined out of the frame. Original unlined condition. The work presents well overall. Minor bumping and pulling at upper and lower left; minor surface dirt and dust with some isolated pin dot accretions; a faint horizontal stretcher bar mark at center; and a few pin dot losses in the lower quadrants, including the 'J' of the signature. Under UV: varnish fluoresces green. No apparent issues.

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Provenance:
The artist's studio (and sold, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, June 2-3, 1911, lot 167, illustrated, as Le Chouan)

Comtesse de Guigné (acquired at the above sale)

Sale: François Branger, Angers, December 14, 1991, lot 334, illustrated

Acquired at the above sale by the present owner