Eugène Boudin
Venise, Il Campanile, Le Palais Ducal et La Piazzeta vue prise de San Giorgio
Property from a Distinguished Canadian Collection
Eugène Boudin
1824 - 1898
Venise, Il Campanile, Le Palais Ducal et La Piazzeta vue prise de San Giorgio
signed E. Boudin, dated 95. (lower right) and inscribed Venise (lower left & lower right)
oil on canvas
49.4 by 73.3cm., 19½ by 28⅞ in.
Framed: 67 by 90.5cm., 26⅜ by 35⅝ in.
Painted in Venice in 1895.
The canvas is lined. Inspection under UV light reveals several scattered small spots and fine lines of sensitively-executed retouching, mainly to the edges, and two slightly larger areas of retouching (each approximately 2.5 by 1cm) to the upper and lower left corners. There are some fine lines of craquelure in places. This work is in overall good condition.
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Dr. Charles Abadie, Paris (sold: Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 17th April, 1913, lot 1)
Graat Collection, Paris (purchased at the above sale)
Baron Robert de Rothschild, Paris
Seized from the above by the Geheime Feldpolizei, Gruppe 540, in Paris between July and October 1940 and removed to the German Embassy at 82 rue de Lille, Paris
Restituted to Baron Maurice de Rothschild, 1947
Andre Weil, Paris (likely acquired from the above)
Rosenberg & Stiebel, New York (acquired from the above in 1956)
Galerie André Weil, Paris
Mrs. Margaret Thompson Biddle, New York & Paris (acquired from the above in 1956)
Private Collection, Canada (acquired from the above in 1956)
Thence by descent to the present owner
Fredericton, New Brunswick, Hosmer Pillow Vaughan Gallery, 1969-71 (on loan)
Toronto, Art Gallery of Ontario, 1982 (on loan)