| Owner: | Comtesse de Billy-Fenaille — Gages (Aveyron), France |
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| Collection: | (Billy-Fenaille) Aveyron |
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| Artist: | Fragonard |
| Medium: | Paintings |
| Title: | L'Amour endormi |
| Description: | l'un de deux pendants cadre ovale, bois doré, toile rehaussée de couleur 21 x 17 cm |
| Literature: | A handwritten comment on one of the pages of the Billy-Fenaille file indicates "annulé" in red pencil, or cancelled. |
| Provenance and Comments: | This object was seized most likely at the crossing of the Demarcation Line separating German-occupied France from the so-called Unoccupied Zone in the vicinity of Vierzon. The object was part of the collection of Maurice Fenaille, husband of the Countess of Billy-Fenaille. The French government closed the file on this object on 5 August 1961, presumably because it had no record of its restitution. On 4 July 2013, this painting together with its pendant, renamed "Night and Day" sold for 122,500 British pounds at Sotheby's in London. The provenance indicates that this object and its pendant came out of the Billy-Fenaille estate sale at Drouot in Paris on 23 June 1959. Sotheby's makes no mention of these objects having been looted during the German occupation of France from Billy-Fenaille. . See Billy-Fenaille |
| Archival Sources: | RA 612, MAEE, Paris, France |
| Measurements: | 21 x 17 cm |
| Framed? | Yes |
| Intake place: | Vierzon |
| Intake date: | 1941-07-00 |
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