Augustus Leopold Egg

Lot 31: Augustus Leopold Egg, R.A. (1816-1863)

Name: Augustus Leopold Egg, R.A. (1816-1863)
Brand: Christie's
SKU: 9731d07150

Est: £15,000 GBP - £20,000 GBPSold:

Christie'sLondon, United KingdomDecember 13, 2012

Item Overview

Description

Augustus Leopold Egg, R.A. (1816-1863)
"The Toilet", a lady seated at a toilet-table, and her maid - candlelight
oil on canvas
23½ x 19½ in. (59.7 x 48.3 cm.)

Artist or Maker

Augustus Leopold Egg

Exhibited

London, Jeremy Maas, An Exhibition of Pre-Raphaelite and Romantic Paintings, Drawings, Water-Colours and Prints, 1977, no. 14.
New Haven, Yale Center for British Art, The Substance of the Shadow: Images of Victorian Womanhood, 14 April - 13 June 1982, no. 28.
New Haven, Yale Center for British Art, The Edmund J. and Suzanne McCormick Collection, 1984, no. 8.

Literature

C. Forbes, 'McCormick's Victorian Reapings: An American Collection of British Nineteenth-Century Pictures', Nineteenth Century, 6, Summer 1980, p. 40.
H. Faberman, Augustus Leopold Egg, R.A. (1816-1863), Ph.D. dissertation, Yale University, 1983, pp. 89, 367, 436, fig. 27.

Provenance

Artist's Studio sale; Christie's, London, 18 May 1863, lot 117 (50 gns to Gilbert).
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 15 October 1976, lot 3, as 'He loves me'.
with Jeremy Maas, London.
with Christopher Wood, London, from whom purchased by the present owner in 1980.

Auction Details

Victorian & British Impressionist Art

Christie's

December 13, 2012, 02:30 PM GMT

8 King Street, St. James's, London, LDN, SW1Y 6QT, UK

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