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Lot 230:
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Keywords: NO RESERVE, Roybet, French Painting, Oil on Canvas Painting, Interior Portrait, Young Cavalier, Genre Scene, 19th Century Painting, Portrait Painting, European Painting, Signed Painting, Framed Painting
Summary:
Ferdinand Victor Leon Roybet (1840-1920) oil on canvas interior portrait painting depicting a young cavalier standing beside a fountain. Signed upper left. Presented in a carved frame. Christie’s New York label verso.
Provenance: Christie’s, New York, March 30, 2004, Lot 81, from a Mill Neck, Long Island, New York estate.
Ferdinand Victor Léon Roybet (1840–1920) was a prominent French painter and engraver, celebrated for his virtuosity in historical genre scenes and high-society portraits. He became a defining figure of "historicist" painting in the late 19th century, often recreating 16th and 17th-century life with meticulous attention to period costumes and textures.
( Overall presents well despite. Relined. Surface shows visible craquelure throughout, with scattered areas of thin paint, abrasion, and paint loss, most notably in the darker background and lower left area. Small losses and edge wear visible, including a chip/loss at the lower right edge. Surface appears under a somewhat dirty or discolored varnish. Frame with general wear, scuffs, and losses consistent with age.)
Measurement: Art: 39 3/4 x 31 1/2 in. (101 x 80 cm.), Frame: 46 x 38 1/4 in. (116.8 x 97.2 cm.) approx
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