NARCISSE VIRGILE DIAZ DE LA PEÑA | VIEUX TRONCS DE HÊTRES

Property of an American Gentleman
NARCISSE VIRGILE DIAZ DE LA PEÑA
French
1808 - 1876
VIEUX TRONCS DE HÊTRES

indistinctly stamped ND (lower right)
oil on canvas
canvas: 21⅜ by 17 in.; 54.9 by 43.1 cm
framed: 32¾by 28⅜ in.; 81.9 by 72 cm

Condition Report:
Lined. Surface wavy at top center. Under UV: Heavy varnish is somewhat difficult to read through, thin lines of inpainting to address craquelure in upper half of the composition, broader strokes of inpainting along lower half largely concentrated along lower left and bottom edges.

Provenance:
The artist's studio (and sold, his sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, January 22, 1877, lot 82)

Galerie Sedelmeyer, Paris (acquired at the above sale)

James S. Inglis, New York (and sold, his sale, American Art Association, New York, March 10, 1910, lot 98, illustrated (as Forest Interior)

R.S. Hull (acquired at the above sale)

Knoedler, New York

Macfadden, Philadelphia

Thomas Agnew & Sons, London

Scott's Galleries, Montreal

Sale: Sotheby Parke-Bernet, New York, May 4, 1979, illustrated

Private Collection, Maryland (acquired circa 1981)

Thence by descent to the present owner