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    30 September - 1 October 2003

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    • Jean François Xavier Roffiaen
    Lot 447

    Jean François Xavier Roffiaen (Belgian, 1820-1898)

    Mount Rosa

    Price realised

    USD 5,378

    Estimate

    USD 4,000 - USD 6,000

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    Jean François Xavier Roffiaen (Belgian, 1820-1898)
    Mount Rosa
    signed and dated 'F. Roffiaen 1869' (lower left)
    oil on canvas
    19½ x 34½ in. (49.5 x 87.7 cm.)
    Painted in 1869

    Provenance

    Henry C. Gibson, Philadelphia.
    Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 1892 (bequest from the above).

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    Literature and exhibited

    Literature

    E. Strahan, ed., Art Treasures of America, New York, circa 1880, vol. I, p. 80.


    Exhibited

    Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, The Beneficient Connoisseurs (Henry C. Gibson Collection), 5 January-17 February 1974, no. 72.


    Other information

    Special Notice

    This lot is exempt from Sales Tax.


    Pre-Lot Text

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

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