Veules les Roses, Le Moulin des Cressonnières

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Ilya Repin (1844-1930)
Veules les Roses, Le Moulin des Cressonnières
signed in Cyrillic 'I. Repin' (lower right); further signed in Cyrillic, with inscription and date 'I. Repin./Normandie 1876 Veules' (on the reverse)
oil on card laid down on board
3 7/8 x 7 1/4 in. (9.8 x 18.4 cm.)
Painted in 1874

Provenance

Acquired by the grandfather of the present owner, probably in Oslo, prior to 1970.

Literature

Exhibition catalogue, Vystavka kartin, portretov, eskizov i etudov I. E. Repina [Exhibition of paintings, portraits, studies and sketches by I. E. Repin], St Petersburg, 1891, listed p. 80, no. 282.
S. Ernst, Il'ia Efimovich Repin, Moscow, 1927, no. 282.

Exhibited

St Petersburg, The Imperial Academy of Arts, Vystavka kartin, portretov, eskizov i etudov I. E. Repina [Exhibition of paintings, portraits, studies and sketches by I. E. Repin], 1891, listed no. 282.

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Descriptif du lot

The inscription on the reverse by the artist's daughter Vera Repina (1870-1948) incorrectly dates the work as 1876.
We are grateful to Liudmila Andrushchenko, Senior Researcher at the Ilya E. Repin Estate-Museum 'Penates' for her assistance in cataloguing this work.

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