Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant
Dolce far niente
Auction Closed
November 9, 04:41 PM GMT
Estimate
500,000 - 700,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant
French
1845 - 1902
Dolce far niente
signed and dated Benj-Constant.1882 lower right
oil on canvas
Unframed: 109 by 216cm., 43 by 85in.
Framed: 164 by 266.5cm., 64½ by 105in.
The Replica Handbags Society, London
Sale: Christie's, London, 17 June 1994, lot 196
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Toulouse, Musée des Augustins; Montreal, The Montreal Museum of Replica Handbags s, Benjamin-Constant: Marvels and Mirages of Orientalism, 2014-15, no. 300, p. 380, illustrated in the catalogue, p. 302
Lynne Thornton, Du Maroc Aux Indes, Voyages en Orient, Paris, 1998, p. 92 (illustrated)
Nathalie Bondil (ed.), Benjamin-Constant, Marvels and Mirages of Orientalism, exh. cat., New Haven & London, 2014, no. 300, p. 238 (illustrated), as Odalisque
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