LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

20.87 in. (53.00 cm.) (height) by 15.94 in. (40.50 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed and dated De Nittis 75 lower left

Exhibited:

Paris, Cercle des Mirlitons, 1875. Glasgow, Institute of the Fine Arts, 1876, no. 35 (as. L'Arc de Triomphe in 1872 , lent by J.G. Sandeman). London, King Street Galleries,. Exhibition of a Collection of Pictures and Studies, by G. De Nittis , 1879, no. 1. Glasgow, Institute of the Fine Arts, 1883, no. 727. Glasgow, . International Exhibition , 1888, no. 828 (lent by J.G. Sandeman). Glasgow,. International Exhibition , 1901 (lent by J.G. Sandeman

Literature:

Vittorio Pica,. Giuseppe di Nittis . . L'uomo e l'artista , Milan, 1914, illustrated opposite p. 52. Enrico Piceni,. De Nittis , Milan, 1955, p. 184, catalogued. Mary Pittaluga & Enrico Piceni,. De Nittis , Milan, 1963, fig. 25, illustrated, no. 319, catalogued & illustrated. Piero Dini & Giuseppe Luigi Marini,. De Nittis , Turin, 1990, vol. I, p. 340, the present work probably cited; p. 399, no. 574, catalogued; vol. II, fig. 574, illustrated. . Giuseppe De Nittis, I dipinti del Museo Civico di Barletta alla Fondazione Magnani Rocca , Venice, 1998, exh. cat., p. 23, illustrated

Provenance:

Probably, Algernon Moses Marsden, Conduit Street Galleries, London (acquired from the artist via the art dealer Tedesco). John Glas Sandeman (acquired by 1876, probably from the above. J.G. Sandeman, 1836-1921, was a soldier and collector, who also owned one of Gustave Courbet's finest still lifes, . Apples, Pears and Primroses on a Table , now in the North Simon Foundation in California). Eric Sandeman. Sale: Bonham's, New York, 21 October 2009, lot 71. Purchased at the above sale