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Attributed to François-Marius Granet
1775-1849
19th century
Oil on paper, mounted on illustration board.
5 3/8 x 11 3/8 inches (137 x 289 mm)
Thaw Collection, Jointly Owned by the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Morgan Library & Museum, Gift of Eugene V. Thaw, 2009.
2009.400:71
Provenance:
Galerie de Bayser, Paris; Dr.Tobias Christ (1888-1946), Basel; Baron Robert von Hirsch (1883-1977), Zurich; J. Patrice Marandel, Detroit; sale, New York, Sotheby's, 13 October 1993, lot 239, repr., as Veiw of the Roman Campagna; Eugene V. and Clare E. Thaw, New York.
Notes:
An outright attribution to Granet was questioned during a 2002 bolloquium on oil sketches held at the Morgan Library & Museum in conjunction with The Thaw Collection: Master Drawings and Oil Sketches, Acquisitions Since 1994, cited below, p. 128.
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