Details
ATTRIBUE A GAINSBOROUGH DUPONT (? C. 1754-1829 LONDRES)
Bergers et leur troupeau dans un paysage
Huile sur toile, non encadrée
122,8 x 148,5 cm. (48 3/8 x 58½ in.)
Provenance
Augustus Phipps (1726-1826) ; Sa vente après décès, Christie's, Londres, 19 avril 1834, lot 3, d'où acquis par
Sir Eyre Coote (1806-1834), Ballyfin, Queens Country, Irlande; par descendance à
Sir Algernon Charles Plumptre Coote (1827-1920), Ballyfin; Sa vente, Christie's, Londres, 26 juin 1914, lot 75.
Collection privée, Buenos Aires.
Literature
E.K. Waterhouse, Gainsborough, Londres, 1958, p. 115, no. 921.
J.A. Hayes, The landscape paintings of Thomas Gainsborough. A critical text and catalogue raisonné, Ithaca, New York, 1982, II, p. 459, sous le no. 112, p. 581, comme 'possiblement par Gainsborough Dupont'.
E.J. Sullivan, The Taft Museum: Its history and collections, New York, 1995, I, p. 179.
Exhibited
Dublin, Royal Hibernian Academy, Winter Exhibition of Old Masters, 1902-1903, comme 'Gainsborough'.
Houston, Museum of Fine Arts, Six Master Paintings, Two Glasses, One sculpture, 20 mars-21 avril 1963.
Special notice
This lot has no reserve
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