Lot 347: Sappho

Attributed to Baron Pierre-Narcisse Guérin Paris 1774-1833 Rome
Sappho
oil on canvas
32¼ x 27½ in. 82 x 70 cm.

Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 28 October 1999, lot 456.

From time to time, Christie's may offer a lot which it owns in whole or in part. This is such a lot.
We are grateful to Mme. Bottineau for proposing this painting as an autograph early work by Pierre-Narcisse Guérin, dateable to the closing years of the eighteenth century. She notes the existence of a similar female nude by the artist in the Hermitage Museum and compares it to the slightly larger unfinished canvas, La Jalousie , now in the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Angers.