Claude Joseph Vernet

(French, 1714-1789)

Woman Washing in a Stream, signed in ink lower right "Vernet", collector's stamp lower left "DB" (Lugt 729b), stamp for Sale II, Galerie Georges Petit, 1926, "M.P No. 1", harp stamp (Lugt 2859d) for an unidentified collector, black chalk on light green laid paper, sheet 14-3/8 x 11-1/4 in.; gilt wood frame, 22-1/4 x 18-7/8 in.

Provenance: Ex-collection Jacques Auguste Boussac, sold at Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, May 10-11, 1926 (stamps); Collection of Charles Sterling, Curator of Paintings at the Louvre; by descent to Catherine Sterling, Gallerie Estranger, St. Remy de Provence, France, purchased circa 1990s (her label verso); Private Georgia Collection
Condition Report: light toning at edges, hinged in; frame with wear