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SOLD ON BEHALF OF THE PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS IN ORDER TO BENEFIT ITS AMERICAN ART ACQUISITION FUND
Emile van Marcke de Lummen (French, 1827-1890)
The Approaching Storm
Details
Emile van Marcke de Lummen (French, 1827-1890)
The Approaching Storm
signed 'Em van Marcke' (lower left)
oil on canvas
29 1/8 x 36½ in. (74 x 92.7 cm.)
The Approaching Storm
signed 'Em van Marcke' (lower left)
oil on canvas
29 1/8 x 36½ in. (74 x 92.7 cm.)
Provenance
Goupil & Co., M. Knoedler Successors, New York.
Henry C. Gibson, Philadelphia (purchased from the above, October 1875 for $2000).
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 1892 (bequest from the above).
Henry C. Gibson, Philadelphia (purchased from the above, October 1875 for $2000).
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 1892 (bequest from the above).
Literature
E. Strahan, ed., Art Treasures of America, New York, circa 1880, vol. I, p. 80.
Exhibited
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, The Beneficent Connoisseurs (Henry C. Gibson Collection), January-February 1974, no. 93.