LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

77.95 in. (198.00 cm.) (height) by 110.00 in. (279.40 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed and dated at left: Guillon Lethière R. 1812

Literature:

G. Capy, Guillaume Guillon Lethière, peintre d'histoire 1760-1832, Paris 1991, cat. no. 30.

Provenance:

Antonio Piccolomini Bellanti, Siena, possibly by whom acquired from the artist; From whom purchased by Sir Robert Keith Dick-Cunningham, Bt., Prestonfield House, Edinburgh, circa 1837; From whose descendant purchased in 1960 by a collector; By whom anonymously sold, Monaco, Christie's, 7 December 1990, lot 342A, where purchased by the present collector.