Live Auction 5979Old Master, 19th Century and British Drawings and Watercolours
Christie’s roundel
Lot 662

Louis Gallait (Tournai 1810-1887 Schaerbeck, Brussels)

Portrait of Edouard Fétis (1812-1909)

Closed9 July 2009

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GBP 1,500

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Louis Gallait (Tournai 1810-1887 Schaerbeck, Brussels)
Portrait of Edouard Fétis (1812-1909)
signed and dated 'L. Gallait 1834'
pencil
16 x 11 in. (40.2 x 28 cm.)

Anonymous sale; Christie's, South Kensington, 5 December 1997, part of lot 284.

Specialist note

Probably a preparatory study for Gallait's picture, Portrait of Edouard Fétis (1835) in the Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, although in the latter Fétis is shown standing. The son of the music critic François-Joseph Fétis, Edouard became the director of the Bibliothèque Royale in Brussels.