Lot 88
  • 88

Félix Ziem

Estimate
60,000 - 80,000 USD
bidding is closed

Description

  • Félix Ziem
  • La colonne du lion de Saint Marc sur le Môle
  • signed Ziem (lower left)
  • oil on panel
  • 42 3/4 by 27 1/4 in.
  • 108.8 by 69.2 cm

Provenance

Sale: Dreyfus de Gonzales, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, June 1-4, 1896, no. 56
Arthur Tooth & Sons, New York
Galt Gallery, Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Private Collector (acquired from the above in 1971)
Thence by descent to the present owner

Literature

H. Mireur, Dictionnaire de Ventes d'art faites en France et à l'étranger pendant les XVIIIe et XIXe siècle, Paris, 1912, vol. II, p. 589
Pierre Miquel, Felix Ziem, 1821-1911, Maurs-La-Jolie, 1978, vol. II, p. 219, no. 1598, illustrated (as La Piazetta à Venise)
Anne Burdin-Hellebranth, Félix Ziem, 1821-1911, n.p., 1998, vol. I, p. 24, no. 61, illustrated

Condition

On a stable panel. Some separation to the pigments at lower left. Under UV: Horizontal line of inpainting extending from center of right edge and lower right, additional line of restoration at lower left foreground which extends to lower signature, additional dots through foreground.
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Catalogue Note

Painted circa 1870-5.