Paul Jean Clays

E. LeRoy & Co., Paris 
Knoedler & Co., New York, no. 6343 (acquired from the above, October 1889) 
J.J. Gillespie & Co., Pittsburgh (acquired from the above, May 1891) 
Acquired from the above through the Prendergast Bequest, 1891

Chicago, Interstate Industrial Exposition, 1890 (lent by Knoedler & Co., New York) 

Descriptive Catalogue of the Art Gallery of the James Prendergast Library Association, Jamestown, 1906, no. 11 
Katherine E. Manthorne, The Mirror Up to Nature: A Catalogue of 19^th and 20^th Century Paintings in the Collection of The James Prendergast Library Association, Jamestown, New York, 1982, p. 8, illustrated

Oil on stable panel. Overall the work presents well. There is minor surface dirt and dust; scattered widely patterned craquelure in the sky; and a diagonal faint red accretion in the sky at upper right. Under UV: there are a few areas of brushy fluorescence in the sky, particularly surrounding the prominent sailboat.
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