Collector, Dealer, Connoisseur: The Vision of Richard L. Feigen

Richard Parkes Bonington

Corso Sant'Anastasia, Verona

Auction Closed

October 18, 03:29 PM GMT

Estimate

300,000 - 500,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Richard Parkes Bonington

Arnold 1801 - 1828 London

Corso Sant'Anastasia, Verona

oil on millboard

millboard: 15 by 12 1/2 in.; 38.1 by 31.8 cm.

framed: 21 1/2 by 18 3/4 in.; 54.6 by 47.6 cm.

Purchased directly from the artist by Domenic Colnaghi (1790-1879) 1827;
Rev. Gilbert Elliot, by 1830;
Possibly, with Colnaghi, London;
Possibly, from whom acquired by Thomas Woolner (1825-1892);
By whom sold, London, Christie's, 12 June 1875, lot 128;
Sir Ralph Stephenson Clarke, and by descent to R.N.S. Clarke, Esq.;
By whom offered, London, Christie's, 15 July 1983, lot 41 (where unsold);
With Stair Sainty Mattheissen, New York;
From whom acquired by Richard L. Feigen, 1992.

A. Dubuisson and C.E. Hughes, Richard Parkes Bonington: His Life and Work, London 1924, pp. 78-79;

M. Pointon, Bonington, Franda and Wyld, London 1985, p. 137 (as location unknown);

P. Noon, Richard Parkes Bonington, On the Pleasure of Painting, exhibition catalogue, New Haven 1991, pp. 201 and 292, under cat. nos. 87 and 155;

P. Noon, Richard Parkes Bonington: The Complete Paintings, New Haven and London 2008, pp. 276-7, cat. no. 220, reproduced in color p. 277;

P. Noon, Richard Parkes Bonington, exhibition catalogue, New York 2018, unpaginated, cat. no. 15, reproduced in color.