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Lot 486

Fran‡ois Etienne Villeret

Estimate: $300 - $500

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 1800-1866)

Italian Grotto, signed lower left "Villeret", watercolor and body color on wove paper, 7-1/8 x 10-5/8 in.; wood frame, 13-1/4 x 16-1/2 in.

Provenance: Collection of Horace Delaroche-Vernet (1866-1931); Collection of Charles Sterling, Curator of Paintings at the Louvre; by descent to Catherine Sterling, Gallerie Estranger, St. Remy de Provence, France, purchased circa 1990s (her label verso); Private Georgia Collection

Condition

hinged in