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19TH CENTURY EUROPEAN VICTORIAN and BRITISH IMPRESSIONIST ART Wednesday 1 March 2017 19TH CENTURY EUROPEAN VICTORIAN AND BRITISH IMPRESSIONIST ART Wednesday 1 March 2017 19TH CENTURY EUROPEAN, VICTORIAN AND BRITISH IMPRESSIONIST ART | 33 19TH CENTURY EUROPEAN, VICTORIAN AND BRITISH IMPRESSIONIST ART Wednesday 1 March at 2.00pm New Bond Street, London VIEWING BIDS ENQUIRIES PHYSICAL CONDITION OF Friday 24 February +44 (0) 20 7447 7447 Peter Rees (Head of Sale) LOTS IN THIS AUCTION 9.00am to 4.30pm +44 (0) 20 7447 7401 fax +44 (0) 20 7468 8201 Saturday 25 February To bid via the internet please [email protected] PLEASE NOTE THAT THERE IS 11.00 to 4.00pm visit bonhams.com NO REFERENCE IN THIS Sunday 26 February Charles O’Brien CATALOGUE TO THE PHYSICAL 11.00 to 4.00pm Please note that bids should be (Head of Department) CONDITION OF ANY LOT. Monday 27 February submitted no later than 4pm on +44 (0) 20 7468 8360 INTENDING BIDDERS MUST 9.00am to 5.00pm the day prior to the sale. 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Lots not collected by 5.30pm Wednesday 15 March 2017 will VALUATIONS, TAXATION be returned to the department. & HERITAGE Storage charges may apply. +44 (0) 20 7468 8340 +44 (0) 20 7468 5860 fax The following symbol is used [email protected] to denote that VAT is due on the hammer price and buyer’s CATALOGUE SUBSCRIPTIONS premium To obtain any Bonhams catalogue or to take out an annual † VAT 20% on hammer price subscription: and buyer’s premium Subscriptions Department +44 (0) 1666 502200 VAT on imported items at a +44 (0) 1666 505107 fax preferential * rate of 5% on hammer [email protected] price and the prevailing rate on buyer’s premium 19TH CENTURY EUROPEAN, VICTORIAN AND BRITISH IMPRESSIONIST ART Lots 1 - 79 1 EUGÈNE MODESTE EDMOND LE POITEVIN (FRENCH, 1806-1870) A picnic signed and dated ‘Eug. Le Poitevin/1866.’ (lower right), further inscribed with monogram on red case in lower centre oil on canvas 43 x 62.5cm (16 15/16 x 24 5/8in). £4,000 - 6,000 US$5,000 - 7,500 €4,600 - 7,000 6 | BONHAMS 2 ADOLPHE ALEXANDRE LESREL (FRENCH, 1839-1929) A winning hand signed and dated ‘A.A. LESREL 1895’ (lower right) oil on panel 25 x 18cm (9 13/16 x 7 1/16in). £3,000 - 5,000 US$3,700 - 6,200 €3,500 - 5,800 19TH CENTURY EUROPEAN, VICTORIAN AND BRITISH IMPRESSIONIST ART | 7 3 GUSTAVE COURBET (FRENCH, 1819-1877) Paysage du Jura signed ‘G. Courbet’ (lower right) oil on canvas 27 x 35cm (10 5/8 x 13 3/4in). £10,000 - 15,000 US$12,000 - 19,000 €12,000 - 17,000 Provenance with Arthur Tooth and Sons Ltd., London, no.2553 Purchased from the above in February 1951 by the family of the present owner Private collection, UK Exhibited London, Arthur Tooth and Sons Ltd., Paris-Londres: A collection of pictures recently purchased in France, 11 April-11 May 1951, no.5 Liverpool, Central Library Wallasey, An Exhibition of French Pictures from the Collection of Morton D. Oliphant Esq., 12 May-7 June 1958, no.4 Liverpool, Walker Art Gallery, Personal Choice: Paintings and Sculpture from Local Private Collections, 19 July-20 August 1961, no.10 (lent by the family of the present owner) 8 | BONHAMS 19TH CENTURY EUROPEAN, VICTORIAN AND BRITISH IMPRESSIONIST ART | 9 4 LÉON AUGUSTIN LHERMITTE (FRENCH, 1844-1925) Le Labourage signed ‘L.Lhermitte’ (lower right) charcoal 38.5 x 67cm (15 3/16 x 26 3/8in). on two joined sheets £3,000 - 5,000 US$3,700 - 6,200 €3,500 - 5,800 Provenance with Durand-Ruel, Paris, 30 May 1972 with Deschamps, London Robert Rudolph Private collection, UK Literature M. Le Pelley Fonteny, Catalogue raisonné de Léon-Augustin Lhermitte, Pairs, 1991, p.481, no.931 (with wrong dimensions) Painted in 1871, the present lot is a preparatory drawing for the oil held in the Glasgow Museum entitled Ploughing with Oxen (accession no.2229), executed the same year. Lhermitte’s honest and realist depiction of these two peasant farmers is typical of his work, conveying solemnity yet also a certain reverence for their exhausting and thankless work. We are grateful to the Comité Lhermitte for confirming the attribution to Léon Augustin Lhermitte. The work will be included in the Supplement of the Catalogue Raisonné of the artist, currently in preparation by Galerie Brame & Lorenceau and Monique Le Pelley-Fonteny. 10 | BONHAMS 19TH CENTURY EUROPEAN, VICTORIAN AND BRITISH IMPRESSIONIST ART | 11 5 HIPPOLYTE CAMILLE DELPY (FRENCH, 1842-1910) Evening on the Loire signed ‘H C. Delpy.’ (lower right), with artist’s stamp to the reverse oil on panel 52 x 81.5cm (20 1/2 x 32 1/16in). £4,000 - 6,000 US$5,000 - 7,500 €4,600 - 7,000 Provenance with M. Newman, London Private collection, UK 12 | BONHAMS 19TH CENTURY EUROPEAN, VICTORIAN AND BRITISH IMPRESSIONIST ART | 13 6 HIPPOLYTE CAMILLE DELPY (FRENCH, 1842-1910) A tree-lined river landscape, a village beyond signed and dated ‘H.C.Delpy. 96’ (lower right) oil on panel 52 x 81cm (20 1/2 x 31 7/8in). £20,000 - 30,000 US$25,000 - 37,000 €23,000 - 35,000 Provenance with Richard Green Fine Paintings, London Private collection, Spain 14 | BONHAMS 19TH CENTURY EUROPEAN, VICTORIAN AND BRITISH IMPRESSIONIST ART | 15 7 GEORGES WASHINGTON (FRENCH, 1827-1910) The hunt signed ‘G Washington’ (lower right) oil on panel 22 x 41cm (8 11/16 x 16 1/8in). £4,000 - 6,000 US$5,000 - 7,500 €4,600 - 7,000 Provenance Private collection, Greece 16 | BONHAMS 8 ALEXANDER M. ROSSI (BRITISH, 1840-1916) Reflection signed ‘A.Rossi/1896’ (upper right) oil on canvas 77.5 x 55.5cm (30 1/2 x 21 7/8in).
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