SOLD ON BEHALF OF THE PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS IN ORDER TO BENEFIT ITS AMERICAN ART ACQUISITION FUND

Narcisse Virgile Diaz de la Peña (French, 1808-1876)

En foret de Fontainebleau

Details

Narcisse Virgile Diaz de la Peña (French, 1808-1876)
En foret de Fontainebleau
signed and dated 'N. Diaz. 70' (lower left)
oil on panel
24¼ x 32 1/8 in. (61.6 x 81.7 cm.)
Painted in 1870

Provenance

Henry C. Gibson, Philadelphia.
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. 30.

Lot Essay

Pierre Miquel will include this work in his forthcoming Diaz catalogue raisonné as no. 1528.

*This lot may be exempt from sales tax as set forth in the Sales Tax Notice in the back of the catalogue.

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