19th Century European Art

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Lot 120
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Rosa Bonheur

Estimate
150,000 - 200,000 USD
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Description

  • Rosa Bonheur
  • Spanish Muleteers Crossing the Pyrenees
  • signed Rosa Bonheur and dated 1857 (lower right)
  • oil on canvas
  • 46 by 79 in.
  • 116.8 by 200 cm

Provenance

E. Gambart, London (and sold: Christie's, London, May 3-4, 1861, lot 276)
Pennell
Knowles
Thomas Walker, Berkswell Hall, Warwickshire (and sold: Christie's, London, June 2, 1888, lot 69)
Thomas Agnew & Sons, London
Possibly, Albert Brassey, 1890
Geraldine Rockefeller Dodge (and sold: Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, May 14, 1976, lot 29)
Private Collection, New York (and sold: Christie's, New York, October 30, 1992, lot 92, illustrated)
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Exhibited

Paris, Exposition Universelle, 1867
Possibly, London, Whitechapel, St. Judes, 1890, no. 21

Literature

Anna Klumpke, Rosa Bonheur, Sa Vie-Son Oeuvre, Paris, 1908, p. 424, illustrated p. 201 (as Bourriquaires Traversant les Pyrenées)