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50 George Hendrik Breitner (1857-1923) Labourers pulling a heavily laden cart on the Jacob van Lennepkade, Amsterdam signed ‘G.H. Breitner’ (lower left) oil on panel, 18,5x28,5 cm
51 Pierre Puvis de Chavannes (French, 1824-1898) Slippers on a stool
Exhibited: -Ottawa, National Gallery of Canada, ‘Puvis de Chavannes 1824-1898’, March-April 1977, no. 35. Literature: -Louise d’Argencourt, ‘Puvis de Chavannes 1824-1898’, Ottawa 1977, p. 54, ill. p. 56, no. 35. -Aimée Brown Price, ‘Pierre Puvis de Chavannes’, New Haven 2010 Vol 1, ill. p. 66, no. 81. Provenance: -Collection of the family of the artist. -With Gallery Alsace, Paris. -With Kunsthandel G.J. Nieuwenhuizen Segaar, The Hague, where exhibited in 1968 (label attached to the reverse).
annotated, dated and signed with initials ‘Paint avec conviction et reconnaissance/le 6 mai
1861/P.P.C.’ (upper right) oil on panel, 20,5x27 cm
Painted circa 1900.
€5,000 - €7,000
€7,000 - €10,000
Provenance: -With Kunsthandel E.J. van Wisselingh & Co., Naarden, inv. no. S 6408* (label attached to the reverse). Please compare to a larger watercolour with a similar composition, in the collection of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, inv. no. RP-T-1978-88.
According to a catalogue entry in d’Argencourt 1977, the family of Puvis de Chavannes, who sold the work, maintained that the artist gifted the work to his wife, the Romanian princess Marie Cantacuzène (1820-1898). The annotation ‘paint avec conviction et reconnaissance’ would refer to some event in their intimacy.
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