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A painting by Sophie Fremier bought by the Getty
8/4/24 - Acquisition - Los Angeles, The J. Paul Getty Museum - The painting is unsigned, and it is easy to trace it on the internet before it was bought by the Robilant+Voena gallery, from which the Getty Museum acquired it. Initially on the art market as anonymous and possibly representing Juliette Récamier, it was auctioned on 2 March 2022 in London by Wooley & Wallis as attributed to François-Joseph Kinson, then by Christie’s New York on 25 May 2023 under the hypothetical name of Sophie Rude, Sophie Fremiet by her maiden name, who married the sculptor François Rude in 1821.
At Robilant+Voena, where it was exhibited at the end of 2023 as part of a very up-to-date exhibition on women artists ("Ahead of her Time: Pioneering Women from the Renaissance to the Twentieth Century"), it was…
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