Auction on
09 November 2019 - 14:00 (CET) -
6, rue Georges-Clemenceau - 23000 Guéret
This beautiful painting by Gustave Boulanger was exhibited at the 1848 Prix de Rome competition before disappearing for almost two centuries. It reappeared in a small house nestling in the countryside of the Creuse, France and is now up for auction at Guéret.
Gustave Boulanger (1824-1888), Saint Pierre introduit dans la maison de Marie, mère de Jean, canvas, signed in the lower right-hand corner and dated 1848, 147.5×114 cm. Estimate: €20,000/30,000
Gustave Boulanger (1824-1888), Saint Pierre introduit dans la maison de Marie, mère de Jean, canvas, signed in the lower right-hand corner and dated 1848, 147.5×114 cm. Estimate: €20,000/30,000
We may never know how Gustave Boulanger’s imposing Saint Pierre introduit dans la maison de Marie, mère de Jean (“Saint Peter Introduced into the House of Mary, Mother of John”) ended up in the attic of a small house in a rural part of the Creuse—not even art is spared from life’s twists and turns. It dropped…
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