Cicero's Fountain (1829)


Name:              Cicero's Fountain
Artist:            Robert W Weir
a/k/a:             The Fountain of Cicero
Year:              1829 
Format:            Oil on canvas
Size:              13.75x22
Signed?            Robt. W. Weir/1829 (lower right)
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Website ID:        CICE1
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Provenance:        Gouverneur Kemble, Cold Spring, New York. Mark Lurie, Indianapolis, IN, until 1972. Berry-Hill Galleries, New York. Campbell Weir, great-grandson of the artist.
Condition:         Craquelure. Relined. There are retouches present throughout including in the face of the standing figure and in the costume of the seated figure. 
Auction Price:     $2,500
Auction Estimate:  $3,000
Auction Year:      2018
Exhibited?         Pennsylvania Academy of the Arts, 1830, #105. 
NAD?               
Tuckerman?         
Irene Weir Book?   
William Gerts?     
Ahrens Plate/Page?  157
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Notes:             Listed by RWW as Cicero's Fountain (Irene Weir p100)
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Score:             5/10
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