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Sébastien Bourdon

Classical Landscape with Two Towers

Estimate

20,000 - 30,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Sébastien Bourdon

Montpellier 1616 - 1671 Paris

Classical Landscape with Two Towers


oil on canvas, probably a fragment

23 ½ by 38 ¾ in.;

59.7 by 98.4 cm

Anonymous sale, London, Sotheby's, 19 April 1967, lot 57;

Where acquired by Clifford Duits for £400;

Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh (Howard A. Noble Fund, inv. no. 70.29.1) by 1970;

By whom sold ("Sold to benefit the acquisition fund of Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh"), New York, Sotheby's, 5 June 2008, lot 49;

Where acquired by the present collector.

P. Rosenberg, in France in the Golden Age: Seventeenth-Century French Paintings in American Collections, exhibition catalogue, New York 1982, pp. 230 under cat. no. 6, 347, reproduced;

C. Wright, The French Painters of the 17th Century, Boston, 1985, p. 149;

J. Thuillier, Sébastien Bourdon 1616-1671, Paris, 2000, p. 334, cat. no. 200, reproduced.