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NARCISSE-VIRGILE DIAZ DE LA PEÑA (FRENCH, 1807-1876)
La bas d'apremont, deux bûcheronnes près de deux mares
signed 'N. Diaz.' (lower left)
oil on canvas
17⅞ x 25¾ in. (45.1 x 65.4 cm.)
Painted circa 1850.
Provenance
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 26 March 1982, lot 29.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, New York, 24 May 1985, lot 156.
with Murauchi Furniture Co. Ltd., Tokyo.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, New York, 28 April 2015, lot 1, where purchased by the present owner.
Literature
P. et R. Miquel, Diaz de la Peña: Catalogue Raisonné de l'oeuvre peint volume II, Paris, 2006, p. 202, no. 1308, illustrated.
Exhibited
London, Hazlitt Gallery, Some Paintings of the Barbizon School III, 4 May - 8 June 1957, no. 16.
Morioka, Iwate Prefecture Hall, Millet et ses contemporains à Barbizon [from Murauchi Art Museum collection], 2 - 20 August 1989, no. 52, as 'Paysage à Barbizon.'
Kobe, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, Découverte de Barbizon, 11 November - 23 December 1995, no. 23;
this exhibition later travelled to Shizuoka, Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art, 5 January - 12 February 1996; then Kitakyushu, Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art, 22 February - 22 March 1996.
Special notice
This lot is offered without reserve.
This lot has been imported from outside of the UK for sale and placed under the Temporary Admission regime. Import VAT is payable at 5% on the hammer price. VAT at 20% will be added to the buyer’s premium but will not be shown separately on our invoice.
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