JACQUES LAURENT AGASSE | SEPTEMBER TIME

Dr. Hermann Ganz, Zurich

Private collection, Switzerland (by descent to the owner, 1956)

Sale: Beurret Kurmann Auktionen, Zurich, 17 May 2004, lot 4

Estate of Asbjorn Lunde (purchased at the above sale. Lunde (1927-2017) was a collector, traveller and patron of the arts, and one of the greatest collectors of nineteenth-century Norwegian and Swiss paintings. He was born in Staten Island to Norwegian parents, graduated from Columbia University and went on to set up his own successful law firm in Manhattan. In 1968, he purchased his first two Norwegian paintings, which would eventually form the core of a much bigger collection, composed of several hundred objects including paintings, sculptures, prints and Indian miniatures. Throughout his long life, Asbjorn Lunde donated works to multiple museums, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC and the Newark Museum, New Jersey. Following an exhibition in 2011 of more than 50 works from his collection at the National Gallery in London, in 2016 Lunde donated two spectacular paintings to the museum: At Handeck (circa 1860) by Calame and The Lower Falls of the Labrofoss (1827) by Johan Christian Dahl.)

Jacques-Laurent Agasse, Catalogue autographe de son oeuvre 1800-1849, unpublished notes held by the Cabinet d'arts graphiques des Musées d'art et d'histoire, Geneva (titled September)

Painted in 1834.