Old Master and British Works on Paper
Old Master and British Works on Paper
Property from a British Private Collection
Edward Lear
Èze, Southern France
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February 2, 06:55 PM GMT
Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property from a British Private Collection
Edward Lear
1812 - 1888
Èze, Southern France
Watercolor and bodycolor, heightened with white and gum arabic;
signed with the artist's monogram lower right
122 by 186 mm; 4⅞ by 7⅜ in.
by descent to the present owner
The present watercolor is a product of the time Lear spent on the Mediterranean coast of France during the winter months of 1864-65.
The medieval village of Eze lies between Nice and Monaco and in his diary entry for the 6 December 1864, Lear described the landscape around Eze as 'strangely wild and magnificent’.
An on-the-spot drawing of Eze from this perspective survives in the Houghton Library, Harvard University.1 That work dates to the afternoon of 6 December 1864 and may well have served as an aide-memoire for the present lot.
1. See V. Noakes, Edward Lear 1812-1888, London 1985, p. 117, no. 32a.
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