Live Auction 1040019th Century European & Orientalist Art
Albert Aublet (French, 1851-1938)
Lot 18 PROPERTY OF A EUROPEAN COLLECTOR

Albert Aublet (French, 1851-1938)

Autour d'une partition

Closed15 December 2015

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GBP 37,500

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Albert Aublet (French, 1851-1938)
Autour d'une partition
signed and dated 'Albert Aublet 1888.' (lower right)
oil on canvas
77 x 62 in. (195.6 x 157.5 cm.)
Painted circa 1888.

Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 3 March 2006, lot 423.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

Specialist note

The present lot depicts the French composer Jules Massenet at the piano rehearsing `Manon' with the American opera singer Sybil Sanderson . The scene is set in the elegant drawing room of Pierre Loti's residence. The French writer can be possibly identified in the background, on the stairs.