Sleeper Alert!

October 1 2020

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Picture: Coutau-Bégarie

Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:

News on Twitter (via. @neiljeffares) that the above unidentified pastel made €115,000 at the auction house Coutau-Bégarie yesterday. Neil Jeffares pointed out that it is another version of the professor, mathematician and Catholic priest Le père François de Paule Jacquier by Guillame Voiriot (1712/9-1799). More information can be found via this link to Pastellists.com (page 2).

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