Pehr Hilleström
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A lady with a letter and flowers, together with her maid in a park landscape
Signed Hilleström. Canvas laid down on board 39 x 32.5 cm. Period gilded Swedish frame.
Provenance
Count Eric von Rosens collection, Rockelstad, Sweden.
Thereafter inherited.
Sold at Bukowskis, Autumn auction no 372, 6-9 November 1963, catalogue no 47 ill. at pl. 8.
Thereafter Managing Director Carl Bertel Nathorst's collection.
Sold at Christie's, auction Important French Furniture and an Important Collection of Swedish Works of Art, London, 8 December 1994, catalogue no 567.
Thereafter in a Swedish Private Collection.
Literature
Gerda Cederblom, "Pehr Hilleström som kulturskildrare", vol II, 1929, pl. 38. In the artist own list of work as catalogue no 757, vol I, as "Ett fruent som i en skog pryder sig med en bouquette som hon fått, jemte ett bref; Hennes kammarjungfru bär bort dess kappa och Zittra".
More information
The letter says: "Pour Camilla".