Lot 123
  • 123

Charles-François Daubigny

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Description

  • Charles-François Daubigny
  • Vaches au bord de La Seine, à Conflans
  • signed Daubigny and dated 1876 (lower left)
  • oil on panel
  • 16 by 26 3/4 in.
  • 40.7 by 70.5 cm

Provenance

P. Navez, Paris
Possibly, Collection of Count Cecil Pecci Blunt
Possibly, Collection of Ferdinand Blumenthal
Galerie Georges Petit, Paris (until 1930)
Collection of Enrique Astengo, Rosario (from 1930)
Thence by descent (and sold: Christie's, New York, May 23, 1991, lot 238, illustrated)

Exhibited

Lucerne, La Peinture Contemporaine S.A., 1930, no. 31

Literature

Robert Hellebranth and Anne Hellebranth, Charles-François Daubigny, 1871-1878, Supplément, p. 9, no. 26, illustrated 

Condition

Good condition, on stable panel, surface accretion at upper left corner; under UV: some inpainting to address frame abrasion at upper left and lower left edges, ¼ by ¼ in. dot of inpainting in body of white cow, dashes of inpainting in upper left sky.
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