Lot 112

Overall some areas of cracking and flecks of paint loss, overpainting to central wave and across lower edge in centre, old repair to top right corner, surface dirt


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The original painting is held in the Louvre, Paris. Edward Dechaux was a New York City business active in the 1830s, he was known as a "colour man" who prepared canvases for artists through a time-consuming process of sizing, adding layers of a solid colour ground, and then drying thoroughly, a process that saved painters much time and effort.