19th-Century European Art

19th-Century European Art

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Charles Bargue

The Smoker (Un Vendéen Fumeur)

Estimate

10,000 - 15,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Charles Bargue

French 1825 - 1883

The Smoker (Un Vendéen Fumeur)


signed and dated lower right: C.Bargve - 71

oil on panel 

panel: 5 ⅛ by 3 ¾ in.; 13 by 9.5 cm

framed: 13 ¼ by 12 in.; 33.7 by 30.5 cm

The artist;

By whom sold to Goupil & Cie. Paris, 1871 (no. 5515);

From whom acquired by Mr. Fox, Manchester England, 11 July 1871;

Returned to Goupil & Cie by Fox (possibly through Everard), April 1872;

By whom sold to Waring, 13 July 1872;

Private collection;

Sale, Sotheby’s, New York, 5 May 1999, lot 258;

Where acquired by the present owner.

G. M. Ackerman, Charles Bargue, with the Collaboration of Jean-Léon Gérôme: Drawing Course. exhibition catalogue, Dahesh Museum of Art, New York, Paris, 2003, no. 18, illustrated.

New York, Dahesh Museum of Art, Charles Bargue: The Art of Drawing, 25 November 2003–8 February 2004, no. 18