Details
HENRI-JOSEPH HARPIGNIES (FRENCH, 1819-1916)
La flaque au bois
signed and dated 'h.harpignies 77.' (lower left)
oil on canvas
1318 x 914 in. (33.2 x 23.4 cm.)
Provenance
Colonel William Tozer C.B.E., Harwood House, East Grinstead, Sussex collection.
His sale; Sotheby's, London, 5 May 1948, lot 11 as A landscpe, Picardy.
Purchased from the above sale by City Art Gallery, Bristol.
Purchased from the above by Hazlitt Gallery, London, in 1954.
John Tillotson, London, by 1965.
Private Collection, Guernsey.

Exhibited
London, Hazlitt Gallery, Barbizon School, May 1955, No. 22 as Paysage.
London, Hazlitt Gallery, The Tillotson Collection, October 1965, No. 33.
Special notice
This lot is offered without reserve.
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This painting was part of the John Tillotson collection. John Tilloston was a trustee at the Lady Lever Art Galley, Port Sunlight and the Wallace Collection, London and a Syndic of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge to which he bequeathed his collection of Barbizon School paintings.

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