19th-Century European Art
19th-Century European Art
Property from a Northeast Institution
Emile René Ménard
View from the Campanile, Venice
Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property from a Northeast Institution
Émile-René Ménard
French 1862 - 1930
View from the Campanile, Venice
signed and dated lower right: E. Ménard 1913
oil on canvas
canvas: 33 ¾ by 48 ½ in.; 85.7 by 123.2 cm
framed: 40 ¾ by 55 ¾ in.; 103.5 by 141.6 cm
Shipped to the US in 1920 by P. Navez on behalf of the Carnegie Institute for inclusion in a highlighted group of works by Ménard (Carnegie Institute 19th Annual International Exhibition);
Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (by May 1920);
Where acquired by Mr and Mrs George B. Gordon, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania;
By whom bequest to the Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1934;
With W. & J. Sloane, Inc., New York;
Gifted by the above to the present owner, February 1967.
19th Annual International Exhibition of Paintings, exhibition catalogue, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 1920, no. 226 (as Venice: View from the Campanile).
A. Michel, Peintures et pastels de René Ménard. Paris 1923, p. 74 (as Venise vue du Campanile de Saint-Georges-Majeur).
“The Gordon Bequest” in Carnegie Magazine, vol. 8, Pittsburg 1934, p. 174.
Recent Museum Acquisitions in Parnassus, Feb 1935, vol. 7, p.18, no. 2.
Paris, Société nationale des Beaux-Arts, 1914 (possibly)
Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute of Art, 19th Annual International Exhibition, 1920, no. 226