Lot Essay
Le Retour de la Chasse was painted circa 1879 and was sold in the Coral Petroleum Collection, Sotheby's New York, 22 May, 1985, lot 24.
Edward Straham wrote about the oil painting 'Here the artist ... has given his sense of beauty full play, and resolved to paint a scene in which none but noble forms should enter - of man and beast and architecture. The picture is beautiful like a fairy story; the fountain dates from the Arabian Nights; the ... straight-nosed, long-limbed rider, with his steel cap and his mailed arms, is as handsome as St. George.'
Edward Straham wrote about the oil painting 'Here the artist ... has given his sense of beauty full play, and resolved to paint a scene in which none but noble forms should enter - of man and beast and architecture. The picture is beautiful like a fairy story; the fountain dates from the Arabian Nights; the ... straight-nosed, long-limbed rider, with his steel cap and his mailed arms, is as handsome as St. George.'