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Property from a Private Collection

Pierre Narcisse Guérin

Pyrrhus and Polites

Lot closes

February 6, 07:35 PM GMT

Estimate

20,000 - 40,000 USD

Starting Bid

10,000 USD

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Description

Property from a Private Collection

Pierre Narcisse Guérin

French 1774 - 1833

Pyrrhus and Polites


oil on canvas

canvas: 43 ⅞ by 57 ¼ in.; 111.5 by 145.5 cm

framed: 51 by 63 ⅜ in.; 130 by 161 cm

Jacquemar, Inc., New York

Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., New York, 5 May 1945, lot 50 (consigned by the above)

J.R. Rohe (acquired from the above)

Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., New York, February 21, 1946, lot 203

Maurice Goldblatt (acquired from the above)

Frank W. Chesrow, Chicago (acquired by 1956 and until 1982)

Roberto Polo, Spain

Sotheby's, New York, 24 October 1989, lot 3

Private Collection, New York (acquired from the above)

Acquired by 2022 by the present owner

Springfield, Illinois State Museum, The Chesrow Collection, 1956, p. 23, illustrated

Art Institute of Chicago, Treasures of Chicago Collectors, 1961, n.n. (lent by Col. Frank W. Chesrow)

Carbondale, University Galleries, Southern Illinois University, The Chesrow Collection, 1965, no. 42

Tulsa, Philbrook Art Center and Oklahoma City Art Center, The Chesrow Collection, 1970, no. 51

Treasures of Chicago Collectors, exh. cat., Chicago 1961