Lot 213: Charles Lepeintre (Paris 1735-1803)

Charles Lepeintre (Paris 1735-1803)
La grande soeur
oil on canvas
23¾ x 29 in. (60.3 x 73.7 cm.)

Paris, Musée Galliera, Femmes d'hier et d'aujourd'hui, 1960, no. 81 (according to a label on the reverse).

Mac-Avoy, Paris, by 1960.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 23 March, 1990, lot 50, as 'Charles Lepeintre'.

THE PROPERTY OF AN AUSTRIAN COLLECTOR (lots 140, 142, 156, 160,0, 162, 162-165, 173, 201, 204, 213, 261)
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When offered at Christie's in 1990, it was noted that a signed sketch was on the Paris art market in 1985.