The Spring Offering of Fine & Decorative Arts
Sat, May 17, 2014 10:00AM EDT - Sun, May 18, 2014 10:00AM EDT
Live Auction
Lot 238
Edme Queneday
Estimate: $500 - $1,000
Bid Increments
| Price | Bid Increment |
|---|---|
| $0 | $25 |
| $100 | $50 |
| $1,000 | $100 |
| $2,000 | $200 |
| $3,000 | $250 |
| $5,000 | $500 |
| $10,000 | $1,000 |
| $20,000 | $2,000 |
| $50,000 | $5,000 |
| $100,000 | $10,000 |
(French, 1756-1830)
a pair of portrait profiles, Col. Paul Bentalon (1775-1826) and his wife, Katherine Bentalon, (nee Keeports, 1759-1812) of Baltimore, Colonel Paul Bentalon was a Revolutionary war hero at the Battle of Savannah, Georgia, inscribed "Dess: au physionotrace et Grave par Queneday rue neuve-des-petits-champs No 15 a Paris", engravings on paper, 3-3/4 x 3 in. (plates), 5-3/4 x 4-1/4 in. (pages); unframed, foxing, light toning, with hand-written inscriptions identifying sitters in ink in bottom margin, stains, untrimmed. Notes: Colonel Paul Bentalon was a Revolutionary war hero at the Battle of Savannah, Georgia. Edme Queneday invented the physionotrace that was later used by Saint Memin. This method allowed the almost complete engraving of a portrait from life that was given final embellishments by the engraver.. Provenance: Collected by Mrs. Rebecca Lloyd Nicholson (1770-1848), wife of Chief Justice Joseph Hopper Nicholson, and the second daughter of Col. Edward Lloyd, President of the Executive Council, under the colonial government of Maryland; by descent in the Lloyd and Shippen Family
foxing, light toning, with hand-written inscriptions identifying sitters in ink in bottom margin, stains, untrimmed
Condition
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