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Property from a Distinguished Canadian Collection

Eugène Boudin

Venise, Il Campanile, Le Palais Ducal et La Piazzeta vue prise de San Giorgio

Lot Closed

June 30, 12:20 PM GMT

Estimate

300,000 - 500,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

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.

Durand-Ruel, Paris
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
Robert Schmit, Eugène Boudin 1824-1898, Paris, 1973, vol. III, no. 3398, illustrated p. 300