Lot 158
  • 158

Severin Roesen 1815-1872

Estimate
50,000 - 70,000 USD
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Description

  • Severin Roesen
  • Still Life with Fruit, Two Tiers
  • oil on canvas
  • 30 by 25 in.
  • (76.2 by 63.5 cm)
  • Painted circa 1860-1865.

Provenance

Craig and Tarlton, Inc., Raleigh, North Carolina
Acquired by the present owner from the above, 1975

Exhibited

Charlotte, North Carolina, Mint Museum of Art and traveling, American Paintings, The Landon Collection, September 1979-July 1981, no. 15
Charlotte, North Carolina, Mint Museum of Art, Classical Taste in American 1800-1840, November 1993-March 1994
Charlottesville, Virginia, University of Virginia Art Museum, A Jeffersonian Ideal: Selections from the Dr. and Mrs. Henry C. Landon III Collection of American Fine and Decorative Arts, August-November 2005, p. 32, illustrated in color p. 33

Literature

The Magazine Antiques, June 1974, p. 1197
Judith O'Toole, Severin Roesen, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, 1991, p. 131

Condition

Very good condition; lined; under UV: retouches along the upper and left center edges, a quarter size, hollow repair at lower left, and a few other dots and dashes of retouching.
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