Lot 39: NICOLAS-BERNARD LÉPICIÉ | Portrait de jeune femme à son ouvrage, dit Portrait de Madame Lagrenée

Huile sur panneau

16,5 x 12,5 cm ; 6 1/2  by 4 7/8  in

Huile sur panneau

On the naked eye: The painting is in good overall condition. It is painted on a flat panel and the pictorial material is perfectly stable. The panel has been correctly cradled. We can notice some marks from the frame on the borders. We can notice several very light cracks slightly opened in the lower right corner near the armrest. This does not disturb the lecture of the composition. Under UV light: The painting appears under a thick green uniform varnish. We cannot notice any restoration.
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Exposition en faveur des Alsaciens-Lorrains, Paris, 1874, n°899

Catalogue supplémentaire des ouvrages de peinture exposés au profit de la colonisation de l’Algérie par les Alsaciens-Lorrains, Paris, 1874, p. 38, n°899 (« La Tricoteuse ») ;
P. Gaston-Dreyfus, Catalogue, Oeuvre posthume de l’oeuvre de N.-B. Lépicié (1735-1784), n.l., n.d., n°33 ;
Ph. Gaston-Dreyfus, "Catalogue de l’oeuvre peint et dessiné de Nicolas-Bernard Lépicié (1735-1784)", in Bulletin de la Société de l’Histoire de l’Art Français, Paris, 1923, n°164 ;
P. Étienne, Nicolas-Bernard Lépicié (1735-1784). État des connaissances et apports nouveaux, Mémoire de Maîtrise, Université de Paris I, 1997, p. 88-89, n°164, pl. 49 (« La jeune femme tricotant »)

Collection du fermier général Le Roy de Senneville ;
Sa vente, Paris, Me Chariot, 5 avril 1780, lot n°60 ;
Collection Louis Fould ;
Sa vente, Paris, Me Pillet, 4 juin 1860, lot n°8 ;
Vente des collections Allou et Ehrler, Paris, Me Escribe, 12 février 1872, lot n°21 (4010 fr. acquis par Raymond Sabatier) ;
Collection Raymond Sabatier, 1923 ;
Vente anonyme, Paris, Palais Galliera, Me Rheims, 6 avril 1962, lot n°121, pl. XIV