The following provenance applies to lots 209 - 212:
Pierre-Antoine Brianchon, Paris (sale: Hôtel des Ventes de Toulon, 9th April 2013)
Purchased at the above sale by the present owner

The following exhibition references apply to lots 209 - 212:
Paris, Galerie Alfred Daber, Brianchon, Peintures récentes, 1954, nos. 17, 22, 20 & 21
London, Arthur Tooth & Sons, Paintings by Maurice Brianchon, 1956, nos. 27, 26, 24 & 25
Neuchâtel, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Maurice Brianchon, 1962, nos. 68, 65, 66 & 64
Lausanne, Fondation de l'Hermitage, Maurice Brianchon, 1989-90, nos. 50, 55, 51 & 54
Le Mans, Musée de Tessé, Collégiale Saint-Pierre-La-Cour, Maurice Brianchon, 1999
Menton, Galerie d'art contemporain, Maurice Brianchon, 2001

Olivier Daulte & Pierre-Antoine Brianchon, Catalogue de l'œuvre peint de Maurice Brianchon, Lausanne, 2008, no. 437, illustrated p. 212

The board is stable, UV examination reveals a layer of milky varnish preventing the UV light from fully penetrating. There is a small spot of fluorescence to the guard's proper right shoulder, which appear to be inherent to the uneven varnish. There is a small pigment loss below the signature to the lower left. There are faint impressions along all four edges from previous framing. The varnish appears to have discoloured and this work might benefit from a clean. This work is in overall good condition.
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In 1953 Maurice Brianchon was commissioned by the British Government to create a series of paintings to document the young Queen Elizabeth II’s Coronation, which took place on 2^nd June of that year. The result was a series of elegantly small-scale works which serve as a fascinating record of a momentous day. The four paintings offered here depict key moments of the day from an intimate and sometimes unexpected viewpoint as a result of Brianchon’s privileged access. Le Couronnement and Devant l’autel illustrate the solemnity and grandeur of the Coronation rite, whilst Le passage du cortѐge and Le passage du carrosse royal reveal the excitement experienced by the three million spectators who lined the route to Westminster Abbey, queuing for hours to see the Coronation procession despite the unseasonable rainy weather.