Dec 17, 2014 - Sale 2371

Sale 2371 - Lot 25

Price Realized: $ 625
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 700 - $ 1,000
THÉOPHILE POILPOT (1848-1915) CHEMIN DE FER D'ORLÉANS / BRETAGNE / NANTES. Circa 1900.
29 3/4x41 3/4 inches, 75 1/2x 106 cm. Minot, Paris.
Condition B+: tears, repaired tears, losses and restored losses at edges, some affecting image; light creases in margins and image; punch holes in bottom margin; vertical fold; tape on verso. Paper.
Poilpot was an academic painter renowned for his panoramas, a skill which he occassional applied to posters, designing about a dozen images for the Chemin de Fer d'Orléans.