Saint Hospice, on the Riviera, France

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Edward Lear (1812-1888)
Saint Hospice, on the Riviera, France
inscribed and dated 'begun,/November 30./1864/view from Sant Hospice./finished 11.30. AM. January 15./1865 (lower left) and indistinctly inscribed '..../30 Novr.1864' (lower right) and further inscribed with colour notes and numbered '(36)' (lower right)
pencil, pen and brown ink and watercolour, heightened with white on buff paper
6 7/8 x 20¾ in. (17.5 x 52.7 cm.)

Provenance

with Leger Galleries, London.

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Lot Essay

After leaving his beloved Corfu (see lot 153) in 1864 Lear travelled to England, before deciding to spend the winter on the French Riviera. Lear began to work on the watercolours for his exhibition. However during this period, along with his servant Giorgio, he spent a month walking between sixteen and twenty miles a day along the coast to Genoa before returning to Nice on New Year's Eve. This trip would explain the two dates inscribed on the present watercolour.

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