Pehr Hilleström
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A Maid looking for a Lady's Pearl in a candlelit Interior
Text verso on the strether P. Hilleström f (fecit) and numbered no 2. Canvas laid down on board 39.5 x 33.5 cm. Period gilded Swedish frame.
Provenance
Ealier in the Grönsö Collection, Sweden.
After chamberlain Erik von Ehrenheims death in 1930 it was a gift to secretary of state Lars Rabenius, Djursholm, Sweden.
Sold at Christie's, auction Important French Furniture and an Important Collection of Swedish Works of Art, London, 8 December 1994, catalogue no 566.
Thereafter in a Swedish Private Collection.
Literature
Gerda Cederblom, "Pehr Hilleström som kulturskildrare", vol I, 1929. In the artist own list of work as catalogue no 510, as "Ett fruent: som vid ljus söker något och ett annat sitter på en stol".
Sigurd Wallin, "Grönsö, hemmet i ett stort uppländskt herrgårdshus", Nordiska museet, 1952, mentioned at p. 75 and ill half page.