L12102

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Lot 18
  • 18

Hans Gude

Estimate
30,000 - 50,000 GBP
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Description

  • Hans Gude
  • A Lakeside Landscape
  • signed and dated HF Gude 1861 lower left
  • oil on canvas
  • 98 by 143cm., 38½ by 56¼in.

Provenance

Cortlandt DePeyster and Virginia Hamersley Field, New York (acquired in 1887 along with other paintings to decorate The Catharine Field Home, Inc., the charity they founded in Westchester County)

Condition

The canvas has not been lined. There is a 3cm unrepaired tear in the upper left of the sky (visible in the catalogue illustration), with some associated paint flaking, and a related parallel line to the left and right along which tiny spots of paint appear to be beginning to flake and these could benefit from consolidation. There is a pattern of hairline craquelure overall, visible notably in the sky, and an old intermittent scuff along the lowest 20cm of the extreme right edge, and a small one below the bridge near the lower edge. Under ultraviolet light the varnish fluoresces green quite opaquely, however there is no evident visible retouching other than scattered along the extreme lower edge addressing frame rubbing, and possibly one or two tiny spots in the foliage in the middle-ground. This work is overall in good original condition, and would benefit from conservation to the small tear, and cleaning to address the varnish which has yellowed with age. Held in a decorative gilt frame. The sky is richer and more detailed, and the land much less red, in reality than in the catalogue illustration.
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Catalogue Note

Another, related work by Gude with a similar view is in the collection of the Lillehammer Art Museum, titled På setervei.