Lot 478
  • 478

GUSTAVE LOISEAU | La Neige à Mortain (Manche)

Estimate
50,000 - 70,000 USD
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Description

  • La Neige à Mortain (Manche)
  • Signed G. Loiseau and dated 94 (lower right)
  • Oil on canvas
  • 21 1/4 by 28 3/4 in.
  • 53.9 by 73 cm
  • Painted in 1894.

Provenance

François Depeaux, Rouen (and sold: Hôtel Drouot, Paris, April 25, 1901, lot 27)
François Depeaux, Rouen (acquired at the above sale)
Private Collection, New Jersey (and sold: Sotheby's, New York, May 7, 2003, lot 164)
Private Collection, Florida (acquired at the above sale)
Acquired after 2003

Literature

Marc-Henri Tellier, François Depeaux, le charbonnier et les impressionnistes, Rouen, 2010, no. 270, illustrated p. 182

Condition

This work is in good condition. The stretcher has been replaced and the canvas has been re-stretched. The impasto is rich and well preserved. Under UV light: spotted areas of retouching to the edges of the canvas and one larger area of retouching in the snow in the lower right register in the foreground of the composition. Otherwise, fine.
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Catalogue Note

This work will be included in the forthcoming catalogue raisonné being prepared by Didier Imbert.