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AFTER THE LE NAIN BROTHERS

Starting price
$ 10 000
Auction dateClassic
17.04.2024 14:00UTC -04:00
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CHRISTIE'S
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ID 1176990
Lot 204 | AFTER THE LE NAIN BROTHERS
AFTER THE LE NAIN BROTHERS

Four Figures at a Table

oil on canvas

18 ½ x 23 3⁄8 in. (47 x 59.3 cm.)





Provenance

(Possibly) Charles Sedelmeyer (1837-1925); his sale, Sedelmeyer Gallery, Paris, 16 May 1907 (=1st day), lot 224.

(Possibly) with Leger Gallery, London, by 1931.

Oscar Bondy (1879-1944), Vienna, by 1934, from whom confiscated by the Gestapo in 1939 following the “Anschluss” of March 1938.

Acquired by Hans Posse for the “Sonderauftrag Linz”, July 1940.

Transferred to the Munich Central Collecting Point (MCCP no. 2276⁄1) and returned to the Republic of Austria, 16 May 1945.

Restituted to his widow, Elizabeth Bondy, 1948.

with Leger Gallery, London.

Jack Linsky (1897-1982) and Belle Linsky (1904-1987), and by inheritance to the following,

Anonymous sale [The Estate of Belle Linsky]; Sotheby's, New York, 3 June 1988, lot 16, as 'Circle of Louis Le Nain', where acquired by the present owner.



Literature

P. Rosenberg, Tout L'Ouvre Peint des Le Nain, Paris, 1993, p. 79, no. 29C, illustrated, as 'a copy'.

H. Wine, The Seventeenth Century French Paintings in the National Gallery, London, 2001, p. 198, under NG 3879, no. 3, as 'A Copy'.

S. Lillie, Was Einmal War, Vienna, 2003, p. 231, 'Oelbild, Bauernfamilie beim Tischgebet'.

B. Schwarz, Hitlers Museum, Die Fotoalben, Gemäldegalerie Linz, Vienna, 2004, pp. 134 and 294, no. VIII/16 b, fig. VIII/16.



Exhibited

Paris, Petit Palais, Les Le Nain, June-October 1934, no. 53, as Louis le Nain, lent from the Bondy Collection.
Artist:Louis Le Nain (1593 - 1648)
Applied technique:Oil on canvas
Genre:Genre art
Place of origin:Western Europe, France, Europe
Category:Painting
Auction house category:Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings
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