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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nov 24, 2015 | Sotheby's | London | BERNHEIMER Evening Sale | 23 | $****** - ****** | The Turkish Lovers |
paintings
145.4 x 98.2 cm (57.24 x 38.66 in)
oil on canvas
Baron Antoine Marie Albert Héron de Villefosse (d. 1888), with two other panels entitled The Toast and The Picnic
. His sale (as 'The Marquis H de V'), London, Christie's, 5 June 1871, lot 212 (as 'J.B. Le Prince, a set of three panels, painted with conversations surrounded by arabesques, birds and medallions of animals'), for 115 Guineas, to Toms
. From whom probably acquired by Henri-Louis Bischoffsheim (1829-1909), Bute House, London, then 75 South Audley Street, London
. Thence by descent to his daughter, Amelia, wife of Sir Maurice Fitzgerald, 20th Knight of Kerry, 2nd Baronet of Valencia (1844-1916), who transferred them to 16 Mansfield Street, London
. Thence by descent to Sir John Fitzgerald, 21st Knight of Kerry, 3rd Baronet of Valencia (1884-1957)
. From whom acquired by Wildenstein, February 1950 (Wildenstein had already bought the two companion panels from the family in July 1946)
. All three panels sold to a British private collector, March 1970
. Anonymous sale, London, Sotheby's, 26 April 2007, lot 119, where unsold
. Acquired by the present owner shortly thereafter.
Wildenstein, The French Eighteenth-Century Interior, February - March 1951.
The King of Illustrated Papers, 1902;. C. Hussey, 'A London House of the XVIIIth Century - 16 Mansfield Street, the Residence of Lady Fitzgerald', Country Life, vol. LXVII, 26 April 1930, pp. 604-09;. The Burlington Magazine, March 1951, p. 102 (in a review of the Wildenstein exhibition);. J. Cornforth, London Interiors, London 2000, p. 100, fig. 16, reproduced in the drawing room of Mansfield Street, and p. 101, reproduced in the boudoir of South Audley Street.
