Feb 07, 2019 - Sale 2498

Sale 2498 - Lot 227

Price Realized: $ 6,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 6,000 - $ 9,000
LOUIS J. RHEAD (1858-1926) LE JOURNAL DE LA BEAUTÉ. 1897.
32 1/4x59 3/4 inches, 82x151 3/4 cm. Chaix, Paris.
Condition B+: replaced losses, repaired tears and overpainting in margins and image and along vertical and horizontal folds; creases and abrasions along folds; small foxing spots in top margin. Framed.
Along with a panel of swans, this scene was commissioned by La Plume as "large lithographs that could be incorporated into decorative interior schemes" (Kiehl p. 177). This is the version with text. rare. DFP-I 454a, Kiehl 270.