Aug 05, 2009 - Sale 2185

Sale 2185 - Lot 83

Price Realized: $ 600
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
DOMINQUE CHARLES FOUQUERAY (1872-1956) LE CARDINAL MERCIER PROTÈGE LA BELGIQUE. 1916.
47x31 1/2 inches, 120x80 cm. Lapina, Paris.
Condition B / B+: restored loss in upper right corner; repaired tears, losses and foxing in margins; restoration along horizontal folds.
"Cardinal Mercier was a spokesman for the Belgian people in opposing deportation of Belgian workmen and in condemning the German burning of the Louvian library" (Darracott p. xvii). IWM p. 29, Darracott 14.