Lot number 2678 - Auction
Der Mime, wohl Porträt von Charles Debureaut (1829-1873)

ALEXIS VOLLON 1865 Paris - 1945 The Mime, probably portrait of Charles Debureaut (1829-1873) Oil on canvas. 24,5 x 19 cm (F. 35 x 29,5 cm). Inscribed in pencil lower right 'Vollon fils Paris'. Verso: inscribed on stretcher. This portrait could have been painted after the death of the famous French mime from a photograph. His images were reproduced on numerous postcards. Another portrait of Deboureaut, painted by Alexis Vollon, was sold in 2007 by the Paris auction house Millon. Part. very min. dam. Modern frame. Provenance: Private collection Lower Rhine.