May 09, 2024 - Sale 2668

Sale 2668 - Lot 6

Price Realized: $ 2,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000

NOËL DORVILLE (1874-1938)

TROUVILLE. Circa 1895.


45½x27¾ inches, 115½x70½ cm. Minot, Paris.
Condition B+: replaced losses in bottom margin; expertly-repaired tears and minor creases at edges and in image.

Dorville was a French painter, best known for his political cartoons in newspapers and a small output of posters. He notably sketched at the 1899 trial of Alfred Dreyfus, and drew portraits of famous political figures at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919. This is the smaller of two formats, with variations in the text formatting. Rare.