Louis Bachelet
(French, second half 19th century)
A design for a gold knife and spoon for Princesse Mathilde Bonaparte, 1860
pencil and watercolor heightened with white
signed with artists monogram and dated 1860 (lower left)
11 3/4 x 7 3/4in (29.8 x 19.7cm)Provenance: By repute, with Galerie Fischer-Kiener, Paris.
Property from the Collection of Kate Edelman Johnson sold to benefit The Johnson Charitable Remainder Unitrust and the Deane F. Johnson Alzheimers Research Foundation.

Not examined out of the frame, all edges visible. There is a pinhole in the upper left and right sections. There are dots of faint foxing and accretion throughout. There are a few soft creases throughout. There is a V shaped tear in the paper in the upper section (just to the left of the tip of the spoon) measuring approximately 1/8 inches. Each of the four corners have been trimmed.