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JEAN-MICHEL CELS (THE HAGUE 1819-1894 BRUSSELS)
Lot 64 PROPERTY FROM A PROMINENT PRIVATE EUROPEAN COLLECTION

JEAN-MICHEL CELS (THE HAGUE 1819-1894 BRUSSELS)

Study of a plant with pink flowers in a meadow

Closed26 January 2023

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JEAN-MICHEL CELS (THE HAGUE 1819-1894 BRUSSELS)
Study of a plant with pink flowers in a meadow
signed and dated ‘Cels 1840’ (verso)
oil on paper, mounted on a stretcher
9 1/4 x 7 1/4 in. (24 x 18.6 cm)

Private collection, Belgium.
Anonymous sale; Christie’s, London South Kensington, 16 April 1997, part of lot 311.
with Kate de Rothschild, London.

Specialist note

Little is known about Jean-Michel’s artistic activities. The Belgian painter was a lawyer by profession and the son and pupil of the Neoclassical painter Cornelis Cels, director of the Académie de Tournai. It was Cornelis who introduced his son to sketching in oil. A number of drawings and oil sketches on paper by Jean-Michel Cels entered the art market in London in 1997, including the present one. This work, dated 1840, was presumably executed in the outskirts of Brussels.