Lot 84
  • 84

Eugène Boudin

Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 GBP
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Description

  • Eugène Louis Boudin
  • La Chasse Aux Perdrix Sur La Falaise
  • Signed E. Boudin (lower left) 
  • Oil on canvas
  • 78 by 23 1/2 in.
  • 198 by 59.5 cm
  • Painted in 1869.

Provenance

Rosenlecher, Bourdainville
Private Collection
Sale: Hôtel Drouot, Paris, December 5, 1955, lot 9
World House Galleries, New York
Sale: Christie's, New York, May 17, 1977, lot 108
Purchased at the above sale by the present owner

Exhibited

Paris, Galerie de l'Élysée (Alex Maguy), Les Décorations du Château de Bourdainville, 1942
Paris, Galerie Charpentier, Jardins de France, 1943

Literature

Robert Schmit, Eugène Boudin, 1824-1898, Paris, 1973, vol. I, no. 489, illustrated p. 181

Condition

The canvas is lined. There are two 3cm. by 2cm. spots of retouching to the centre of the sky and scattered 1cm. spots of retouching above the horizon. There is extensive retouching to all four edges to cover previous frame-rubbing. There are some 5cm. sq. intermittent areas of retouching mainly to the lower left. All retouching is visible under UV light. This work is in stable condition.
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Catalogue Note

The present work is one of a number of landscapes and still life paintings which M. Rosenlecher commissioned Boudin to paint as decoration for the Château de Bourdainville in 1869.