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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Jul 4, 2012 | Christie's | London | Old Master & British Paintings | 198 | $****** - ****** | Le Tertre |
paintings
38.1 x 46 cm (15 x 18.11 in)
oil on canvas
François, Hippolyte Walferdin (1795-1880), Paris
his estate sale, Hôtel Drouot, 12-16 April 1880, lot 26: 'Au bord d'une rivière, des pêcheurs, dans l'eau jusqu'à mi-jambe, relèvent leurs filets
à droite et à gauche d'un tertre placé dans le centre du tableau, des plis de terrain et l'entrée d'un bois. Un rayon de soleil passe à travers les nuages orageux. Beau paysage, ombres et lumières rendues avec une grande perfection dans le sentiment de Ruysdaël.', 3150 frs. to. Jean-Constant-Denis-James-Edmond Borthon (1825-1889), Château de Prauthoy, Dijon, and by descent to. de Broch d'Hotelans collection, Château de Novillars. with Wildenstein, New York, 1960. with Lefevre Gallery, London. Clive Cookson, by 1949, and by inheritance to the present owner.
London, Royal Academy, Landscape in French Art 1550-1900, 10 December 1949-5 March 1950, no. 128 (lent by Clive Cookson). London, Royal Academy, France in the 18th Century, 1968, no. 234.
R. Portalis, "La collection Walferdin et ses Fragonard", Gazette des Beaux-Arts, 1880, I, p. 297. R. Portalis, Honoré Fragonard, sa vie et son oeuvre, Paris, 1889, I, p. 126, II, p. 289. Catalogue des tableaux & objets d'art de la collection E. Borthon, Dijon, 1890, p. 30, no. 34. (or 35?). P. Josz, Fragonard: moeurs du XVIIIe siècle, 1901, p. 161. P. de Nolhac, J.-H. Fragonard, 1732-1806, Paris, 1906, p. 136. L. Réau, Fragonard: sa vie et son oeuvre, Brussels, 1956, p. 186. G. Wildenstein, The Paintings of Fragonard, London, 1960, no. 175. D Wildenstein and G. Mandel, L'Opera completa di Fragonard, Milan, 1972, no. 182. J.P. Cuzin, Fragonard, Fribourg and Paris, 1987, p. 286, no. 138, illustrated. P. Rosenberg, Tout l'oeuvre peint de Fragonard, Paris, 1989, no. 147.
