Lot 54B: * FRANK B. MAYER (1827-1899)

signed F.B. Mayer and dated 1867, l.r.; also signed and titled F.B. Mayer The Man of the House/Paris 23 rue de Ter? on the stretcher oil on canvas According to Mary Ellen Sigmond, The present work depicts Aim?e Duc-Jacquet, an inn keeper with whose family the artist ? lived during his sojourns in the small alpine village of Ar?ches, Savoy, during the years 1866, 1867, and 1869. A copy of Ms. Sigmond's discussion of this painting will accompany the lot. Provenance Charles F. Mayer (the artist's cousin), Baltimore, Maryland, 1870 Norton Asner, Baltimore, Maryland Acquired by the present owner from the above, 1966 Exhibited Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, The Private Eye: A Salute to Philadelphia Collectors, June-August 1979