LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on panel

Measurements:

6.89 in. (17.50 cm.) (height) by 10.63 in. (27.00 cm.) (width)

Edition:

The authenticity of this work has been confirmed by Museo Archives Giovanni Boldini Macchiaioli, Pistoia.

Provenance:

Guillaume de Gontaut-Biron, marquis de Biron, Paris and Geneva (Gontaut-Biron (1859-1939) was an avid collector of Old Masters and nineteenth-century art. In 1914 over three hundred works from his collection were sold at Galerie Georges Petit, Paris. A portrait in black chalk of the marquis by Boldini is now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (no. 1979.183))  ; Gérard de Soriol; Purchased from the above by the father of the present owner in 1996; thence by descent