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Property of an Important Private Collector

MARCEL MEYS | NEREID

Lot Closed

February 20, 02:32 PM GMT

Estimate

50,000 - 70,000 GBP

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Property of an Important Private Collector

MARCEL MEYS

Mid-Nineteenth Century

NEREID


signed and dated Marcel Meys / 1882 lower right

oil on canvas

painting: 215 by 110cm., 84½ by 43in.

framed: 240 by 135cm., 94½ by 53in.


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Sale: Tajan, Paris, 1 March 1990, lot 178

Sale: Christie's, London, 26 June 2007, lot 189

Purchased at the above sale by the present owner

Paris, Salon, 1882, no. 1877 (as Néréis)

Marcel Paul Meys's oeuvre was highly influenced by that of Alexandre Cabanel, one of the leading academic artists of the Nineteenth Century, whose masterpiece La naissance de Vénus (Musée d'Orsay, Paris) is surely echoed in the present work.

Meys made his debut at the Parisian salon in 1880 where he continued to exhibit until 1901.