Woman Reading

Nicolas Bernard Lépicié1769

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Title: Woman Reading
Creator: Nicolas-Bernard Lépicié (French, 1735-1784)
Date Created: 1769
Physical Dimensions: Framed: 64 x 55 x 5 cm (25 3/16 x 21 5/8 x 1 15/16 in.); Unframed: 46.3 x 37.8 cm (18 1/4 x 14 7/8 in.)
Provenance: Probably Louis-Charles-Léon Courajod [1841-1896], Paris, France, (Probably a public auction, Paris, sold to Georges Wildenstein), (Georges Wildenstein, Paris, France, owned in share with Galerie Cailleux, confiscated by the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg), In possession of the Nazis, In possession of the Allies, repatriated to France and restituted to Georges Wildenstein, (Georges Wildenstein, New York, NY, his share probably sold to Galerie Cailleux), (Galerie Cailleux, Paris, France, sold to Severance and Greta Millikin), Severance (1895-1985) and Greta Millikin (1903-1989), Cleveland, Ohio, gifted to the Cleveland Museum of Art, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio
Type: Painting
Rights: CC0
External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/1964.288
Medium: oil on canvas
Inscriptions: signed left: Lépicié / 1769
Department: European Painting and Sculpture
Culture: France, 18th century
Credit Line: Severance and Greta Millikin Collection
Collection: P - French 18th Century
Accession Number: 1964.288

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