Lot 3
  • 3

Wolfgang Adam Töpffer

Estimate
40,000 - 60,000 CHF
bidding is closed

Description

  • Wolfgang Adam Töpffer
  • La halte des paysans
  • oil on canvas
  • 41.5 x 61.5 cm

Provenance

Collection Duval-Toepffer, Geneva
Collection Louise Aubert-Duval, Geneva
Collection Gustave Lasserre, Geneva
Collection Deluz, Lausanne
Collection Lasserre, Lausanne
Private collection, Switzerland

Exhibited

Geneva, Société des Arts, Exposition rétrospective, 1901

Literature

Lucien Boissonnas, Wolfgang-Adam Töpffer. 1766-1847. Catalogue raisonné des peintures, Berne 2011, p. 334, no. LBP 514, ill.

Condition

Not relined. Faint craquelure overall the surface mainly visible in the dark colours. Abrasions visible along the upper left and lower left edge. Under UV light retouching in various places of the composition visible mostly in the sky and the foreground of the composition. Good condition.
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Catalogue Note

Depicted is the French landscape in l'Ain in the Rhône valley towards L'Ecluse or Bellegarde. 

This work has been authenticated by Mr. Boissonnas.


Dargestellt ist die Landschaft bei l'Ain (Frankreich) im Rhônetal gegen L'Ecluse oder Bellegarde.

Eine Echtheitsbestätigung von Herrn Boissonnas begleitet diese Arbeit.