May 04, 2006 - Sale 2078

Sale 2078 - Lot 236

Price Realized: $ 18,400
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 8,000 - $ 12,000
PAUL CÉSAR HELLEU
La Duchesse de Marlborough.

Drypoint, circa 1901. 550x343 mm; 21 3/4x13 1/2 inches, wide margins. Signed and dedicated "a Mlle Abbot" in pencil, lower left. A superb impression of this large, important print, with richly-inked, velvety burr.

A portrait of the American heiress Consuelo Vanderbilt. Montesquiou VIII.