Noble & Private Collections Including Property from Corby Castle, Cumbria, and Marco Voena’s London Pied-à-Terre

Noble & Private Collections Including Property from Corby Castle, Cumbria, and Marco Voena’s London Pied-à-Terre

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The Principal Contents of Corby Castle, Cumbria

Armand Constant Mélicourt-Lefebvre

Portrait of a lady, three-quarter-length, standing in an interior, wearing a white dress with black lace and holding a fan

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Estimate

5,000 - 7,000 GBP

Bid

1 GBP

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Description


The Principal Contents of Corby Castle, Cumbria


Armand Constant Mélicourt-Lefebvre

Dieppe b. c. 1820

Portrait of a lady, three-quarter-length, standing in an interior, wearing a white dress with black lace and holding a fan 


signed and dated lower left: MELICOURT 1853

oil on canvas, oval

unframed: 130.4 x 97.6 cm.; 51⅜ x 38⅜ in.

framed: 158.8 x 126.2 cm.; 62½ x 49⅝ in. 

This painting may record a lost portrait by Franz Xaver Winterhalter (1805–1873) , as Mélicourt-Lefebvre was known to produce such copies.

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