EDOUARD MARIE GUILLAUME DUBUFE (French, 1853-1909)

Details

EDOUARD MARIE GUILLAUME DUBUFE (French, 1853-1909)

Sunlit Courtyard

inscribed and dated Anacapri. 22. Sept 86 lower right--oil on panel 15½ x 11 3/8in. (39.3 x 28.9cm.)

Provenance

Dubufe family
Thence by descent (until 1993)

Exhibited

Paris, Galérie Georges Petit, Exposition G. Dubufe: Paysages de Capri, January 17-31, 1906, probably no. 5

Lot Essay

The painting depicts an interior courtyard of Dubufe's grand house in Capri. It appears again as the setting for the series of large-scale paintings of the Hours of the Virgin that Dubufe worked on between the years 1888 and 1890.