LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

20.31 in. (51.60 cm.) (height) by 16.14 in. (41.00 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed 'h evenepoel' (lower right)

Exhibited:

Brussels, Cercle Artistique et Littéraire, Exposition d'oeuvres de Henri Evenepoel, 1897-1898, no. 49.

Literature:

Henri Evenepoel archive (no. AACB 76613/448). Henri Evenepoel in a letter to Edmond Evenepoel, (no. AACB 19403). Henri Evenepoel in a letter to Louise van Mattemburgh, 10 January 1898. P. Lambotte, Henri Evenepoel, Brussels, 1908, p. 102. C. de Mey, Henri Evenepoel [unpublished catalogue], p. 105. R. Grenaille, La peinture en Belgique de Rubens aux surréalistes, Paris, 1958, p. 121. H. Coenen in H. Althöfer (ed.), Das 19. Jahrhundert und die Restaurierung, Munich, 1987 (illustrated p. 229). D. Derrey-Capon, 'Henri Evenepoel, catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint' in exh. cat., Musée royaux des beaux arts, Brussels, 1994, no. 184 (illustrated p. 280).

Provenance:

Charles Didisheim, Brussels, by whom acquired directly from the artist, and thence by descent to the present owner.