Lot 353
  • 353

Narcisse Virgile Diaz de la Peña French, 1807-1876

Estimate
18,000 - 25,000 GBP
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Description

  • Narcisse Virgile Diaz de la Peña
  • Le Rêve
  • signed N. DIAZ. l.l.

  • oil on canvas

  • 35.5 by 25cm., 14 by 9¾in.

Provenance

Brechin Collection, Glasgow (sale: Glasgow, 18 March 1919)
Barbizon House (by 1919)
Sale: G. & L. Bollag, Zurich, 20 October 1926
A. T. Hollingsworth
Agnews Gallery, London

Exhibited

Paris, Salon de 1847, no. 469
Dundee, Albert Institute, Dundee Fine Art Exhibition, 1883
Zurich, Kunsthaus, Ausländische Kunst in Zürich, 1943

Literature

Pierre and Rolande Miquel, Narcisse Diaz de la Peña (1807-1876). Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint, Paris, 2006, vol. II, p. 492, no. 2995, illustrated

Condition

The canvas has been relined. There may be some small cosmetic retouchings though a proper reading of this is hindered by a fluorescing varnish layer. Apart from some signs of craquelure and a thick varnish layer, the paint surface is overall in good condition. Held under glass in a plaster moulded gilt frame.
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Catalogue Note

Painted circa 1846-1847.