Lot 502
  • 502

Alfonse Marie de Neuville

Estimate
18,000 - 25,000 USD
bidding is closed

Description

  • Alfonse Marie de Neuville
  • Le Four a Chaux: A STUDY FOR THE PANORAMA OF THE BATTLE OF CHAMPIGNY
  • signed A de Neuville and dated 1881 (lower left)
  • watercolor and gouache over pencil and ink on linen
  • 55 by 79 1/2 in.; 139.7 by 201.9 cm.

Provenance

Tajan, Paris, April 27, 1987, lot 169;
Acquired from the above sale.

Exhibited

New York, The Forbes Magazine Galleries, 1870: The Big Picture, April 25-September 25, 1989;
Bonn, Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, The Desire to See, May 6-July 27, 1993, No. 338.

Literature

François Robichon, "Les Panoramas de Detaille et De Neuville," Bulletin de la Société d'histoire, de l'art Français, 1979, Champigny esquisse no. 4, illustrated;
François Robichon, L'armée Française Vue par Les Peintures: 1870-1914, Paris, 2000, p. 30, illustrated;
François Robichon, Édouard Detaille: Un Siècle de Gloire Militaire, Paris, 2007, p. 42-43, illustrated.

Condition

The canvas is lined. There is some staining and foxing in the center of the canvas and in the sky. Under UV;
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Catalogue Note

The present work is the study for the center of the panorama.

A photographic post card from the period with the same title accompanies this lot.

Please see the catalogue note to Lot 491 describing the Panorama of the Battle of Champigny.