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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Dec 9, 2015 | Heritage Auctions | Dallas | European Art Signature Auction | 66038 | $****** - ****** | Virgin and Child by Edouard Denis Baldus |
paintings
46.4 x 38.1 cm (18.25 x 15 in)
oil on canvas
Private collection, Norfolk, Virginia
Willis and Valma Foster, acquired circa 1972
Robert and Willis Epps, acquired from the above, 2002
By bequest to the current owner.Before he found his métier around 1848 as an architectural and landscape photographer-one who achieved great distinction for his daring compositions, tendency toward abstraction, and experimental techniques resulting in images of great clarity, beauty and scale-Edouard-Denis Baldus began his artistic career in France as a painter. This sensitive copy after Murillo's Virgin and Child composition is an rare example of Baldus' skill as a painter. In private correspondence of September 8, 2014, Baldus historian Malcolm Daniel noted, prior to learning of the present work, "In all my research, I was able to find only a single surviving, identified painting by Baldus, another "Virgin and Child," this one a copy after Murillo, painted on commission for the state and placed in the Church of Saint-Mamert in Gard, in the south of France. Baldus submitted two paintings entitled "La Vi_�rge et l'Enfant J_�sus" to the Salon of 1841, both of which were rejected. One was 95 x 70 cm.
the other was 105 x 80 cm." Neither aligns with the present work, which must be considered a new discovery.This lot is accompanied by a black and white photograph of the back of the original canvas bearing signature and date prior to restoration and lining in 1975.
