European & British Art, Part I

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Property from a Private Collection

Georg Friedrich Kersting

Reading by Lamplight

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Auction Closed

July 13, 12:35 PM GMT

Estimate

250,000 - 350,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Private Collection

Georg Friedrich Kersting

German

1785 - 1847

Reading by Lamplight

oil on panel

Unframed: 47.5 by 35cm., 18¾ by 13¾in.

Framed: 59.5 by 50cm., 23½ by 19¾in.

A certificate of authenticity from Professor Werner Schnell, author of the 1994 Kersting catalogue raisonné, in which the present work, as a later discovery, could not be included, can be supplied for a fee. Please contact the department for further details.

Private Collection, Italy
Purchased from the above by the present owner

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