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Josef Orient
Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 GBP
bidding is closed
Description
- Josef Orient
- A river landscape with travellers on a path and peasants fishing beyond;A river landscape with peasants resting on the bank beside a ruined building
- a pair, both oil on copper
Provenance
With Edward Speelman, London, circa 1960;
From whom acquired by the grandparents of the present owners.
From whom acquired by the grandparents of the present owners.
Catalogue Note
A comparable work by Orient is in the Belvedere, Vienna (see E. Baum, Katalog des Österreichischen Barockmuseums im Unteren Belvedere in Wien, Vienna 1980, vo. II, pp. 462-4, no. 307).
We are grateful to Dr. Georg Lechner in Vienna for proposing the attribution to Joseph Orient on the basis of photographs.