Jean Baptiste Fortuné de Fournier
Souvenir de l’Exposition universelle des Beaux-Arts de 1855
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20,000 - 30,000 USD
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14,000 USD
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Jean Baptiste Fortuné de Fournier
French 1798 - 1864
Souvenir de l’Exposition universelle des Beaux-Arts de 1855
signed and inscribed lower right within self portrait: F. de Fournier fecit
watercolor and graphite on paper
image: 36 by 56 ¼ in.; 91.4 by 142.9 cm
framed: 41 ⅞ by 61 ⅞ in.; 106.4 by 157.2 cm
Sotheby's, London, 21 June 1989, lot 375
With Shepherd Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Paris, Palais des Champs-Élysées, Salon de 1857: Soixante-dix-huitième exposition des ouvrages des artistes vivants, no. 1048
New York, Shepherd Gallery, Winter Exhibition, 1989-1990, no. 29
Explication des ouvrages de peinture, sculpture, gravure, lithographie et architecture des artistes vivants exposés au Palais des Champs-Élysées le 15 juin 1857, p. 130, no. 1048 (as commissioned by S.A.I le prince Napoléon)
Albert Blanquet, “Salon de 1857.”, Revue des Beaux-Arts, vol. 8, 1857, p. 439
Michael Snodin, "Design Drawings at the Victoria and Albert Museum," Drawing, vol. 12, no. 1, May-June 1990, p. 7
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