Lot 20 | *EUGENE FROMENTIN (FRENCH, 1820-76) "CENTAURES ET CENTAURESSES S'EXERCANT AU TIR DE L'ARC"
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signed oil on canvas 79 by 54 in. 200.7 by 137.2 cm. Painted circa 1868, this relates to the painting called Centaures, exhibited at the Paris Salon of 1868, now in the Collection of the Musee du Petit Palais, Paris, and described by Louis Gonse as Fromentin's most discussed painting. The present work, together with Fromentin's Diane au bain (now lost), was painted as part of a series of decorative panels commissioned by Prince Paul Demidoff. Provenance: Commissioned by Prince Paul Demidoff (sale, Hotel Drouot, Paris, February 3, 1868, Lot 14, as Les Centaures) Galerie Georges Petit, Paris Paul Lagarde C. Ledyard Blair (sale, Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., New York, June 10, 1950, Lot 352) G. Butler Sherwell Silva (sale, Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., New York, June 2, 1955, Lot 238) A. de la Fuente Rolande Riveroll Literature: Louis Gonse, Eugene Fromentin: Peintre et Ecrivain, Paris, 1891, p. 85 Georges Beaume, Fromentin, Paris, 1912, p. 173, illustrated James Thompson and Barbara Wright, La vie et l'oeuvre d'Eugene Fromentin, Paris, 1987, p. 249, illustrated.
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