Lot 17
  • 17

Stanislas Lépine

Estimate
60,000 - 80,000 USD
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Description

  • Stanislas Lépine
  • The Seine at Pont Sully and Le Quai Henri IV
  • signed S. Lépine (lower right)
  • oil on canvas
  • 21 7/8 by 15 1/4 in.
  • 55.5 by 38.7 cm

Provenance

Durand-Ruel, Paris (acquired directly from the artist on November 10, 1887)
Charles Viguier, Paris (and sold: Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, May 4, 1906, lot 40)
Rosenberg, Paris
Georges Bernheim, Paris
Private Collection

Literature

Robert Schmit and Manuel Schmit, Stanislas Lépine, 1835-1892, Catalogue Raisonné de l'oeuvre peint, Paris, 1993, p. 49, no. 113, illustrated

Condition

Unlined, pindot of loss in sky, ½ by ½ inch spot of loss at center left edge, dot of loss to right of lamppost, dot of loss to man's hat, frame abrasion along right edge; under UV: scattered spots of inpainting in sky.
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Catalogue Note

Painted circa 1882-1885.