Lot 141
  • 141

Narçisse Virgile Diaz de la Peña

Estimate
50,000 - 70,000 USD
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Description

  • Narcisse Virgile Diaz de la Peña
  • Mare en fôret, chêne demi-mort
  • signed N. Diaz and dated 71 (lower left)
  • oil on panel
  • 30 by 25 3/8 in.
  • 76.2 by 64.4 cm

Provenance

Galerie Boussod-Valadon, Paris, no. 26455
Auguste Rousseau (and sold: Galerie Georges Petit, March 9, 1900)
Montaignac
Hazlitt Gallery, London (acquired in New York in 1955)
Major Brian Gibbs (acquired from the above in 1956)
Sale: Christie's, London, December 1, 1970, lot 51
Private Collector (acquired at the above sale and sold: Bonhams, London, June 28, 2005, lot 100, illustrated)

Exhibited

London, Hazlitt Gallery, Some paintings of the Barbizon school II, May 1956, no. 15

Literature

Pierre Miquel and Roland Miquel, Narçisse Diaz de La Peña (1807-1876), catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint, Paris, 2006, vol II, p. 249, no. 1578, illustrated

Condition

Very good condition. On a stable cradled panel. Under UV: Heavy varnish fluoresces.
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