Lot Antonín Chittussi - Západ slunce ve Fontainebleau / Večer v okolí Barbizonu Sunset in Fontainebleau / Evening around Barbizon

oil on canvas
26.5 x 39.5 cm
verso exhibition label S.V.U. Manes in Prague, exhibition stamp, and stamp of a French manufacturer of painted canvases

Provenance:
– collection of Augustin Biener
– significant collection, Prague

Exhibited:
– Czech Tradition in the 19 th Century, Exhibition S.V.U. Manes in Prague, catalogue number 198

Publicated:
– Golden Prague, 1913, fig. page 229
– Free Directions, No. 35, 1938–1940, fig. p. 28
– A. Chittussi, Sources, collection of good art, volume 30, published by Melantrich Inc. Prague, 1939, edited by Emil Filla and Josef Trager, reproduced under no.13 as Landscape from Creteil (1883)

Expertise by the renowned expert, author of the monograph and curator of the exhibition, Professor Roman Prahl, enclosed.

Further consulted with Dr Irena Zantovska Murray HonFRIBA, Professor Jaromir Zemina, Dr Jiri Machalicky and Vladimir Lekes.