Lot 123
  • 123

Eugène-Samuel-Auguste Fromentin La Rochelle 1820 - 1876

Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 EUR
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Description

  • Eugène-Samuel-Auguste Fromentin
  • Bouleaux à Montoire, près de Blois
  • Inscrit en bas à gauche Pour Marguerite F/son père Eug.Fromentin ; daté en bas à gauche 1865

  • Huile sur panneau
  • 40 x 29.5 cm ; 15 3/4 by 11 1/2 in.

Exhibited

Fromentin, le peintre et l'écrivain (1820-1976), La Rochelle, Bibliothèque Municipale et Musée des Beaux-Arts, 1970 , probablement n°24 ("Arbres à Montoire"), non reproduit.

Literature

James Thomson et Barbara Wright, Eugène Fromentin, ACR, Paris, 1987, repr. p. 210 ;
Probablement, Eugène Fromentin au Musée des Beaux-Arts de la Rochelle, 1988, cité p. 45

Condition

Good overall condition. No repaint visible under UV light. Needs cleaning. Probably original frame.
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Catalogue Note

Joli paysage "à la Corot" exécuté lors d'une visite de Fromentin chez son ami le peintre paysagiste Charles Busson (voir le lot 126). Il est dédicacé à Marguerite, la fille de fromentin, née en 1854.