Lot 2
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Rubens Peale 1784-1865

Estimate
60,000 - 80,000 USD
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Description

  • Rubens Peale
  • From Nature in the Garden
  • signed and inscribed RP to CWP and dated 1856, l.c. and inscribed By Rubens Peale from Nature in the Garden 1856 on a label on the reverse 
  • oil on canvas

  • 18 3/4 by 24 1/4 in.
  • (47.6 by 61.6 cm)

Provenance

Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence A. Fleischman, Detroit, Michigan
Kennedy Galleries, New York
Acquired from the above, 1966 

Exhibited

Tucson, Arizona, University of Arizona, American Painting, 1765-1963, 1964
Washington, D.C., Corcoran Art Gallery, The Peale Family: Creation of an American Legacy, 1770-1870, April-July 1997

Literature

Kennedy Galleries, The Kennedy Quarterly, vol. VI, no. 3, New York, 1966, p. 158, illustrated

Condition

Apparently good condition; under UV: heavy varnish difficult to read through
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