Auction: American Furniture & Decorative Arts - 2349Location: BostonDate / Time: February 18, 2007 11:00AM
Description:
American/French School, 19th Century
Pair of Memorial Pictures Six Boys Mourning Their Father. Unsigned. Watercolor and gouache on paper, c. 1805, each picture depicting three boys, each holding a sprig of white flowers or a card with indistinct French ink inscriptions "amm- Papa..." with an empty bedchamber in the curtained background, in an oval, 7 3/4 x 6 1/4 in., in later molded giltwood frames. Condition: Laid down onto cardboard, toning.
Estimate $4,000-6,000