CHARLES-FRANÇOIS DAUBIGNY
Paris 1817–1878 Paris
La Tamise aux environs de Londres, 1866
Signed and dated, lower right, juillet 1866 Daubigny; marked with the VENTE DAUBIGNY stamp (Lugt undescribed) on the original backing board, lower left; also inscribed on the backing board, upper left, acheté par le Comte Arnauld Doria / Vente du 19 mars 1937, Salle n° 10 (Hôtel Drouot) / N° 167, pour 1300 + 249 frais = 1549 frs.
Charcoal and black chalk
12 ¾ x 19 ½ inches
324 x 495 mm
Provenance
Studio of the artist (C.-F. Daubigny sale: Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 6-11 May 1878, possibly lot 461 [Erith (la Tamise)], lot 540 [Erith], lot 542 [Erith (Entrée du port)], lot 547 [Erith (Tamise)], lot 550 [Tamise (Londres)], lot 552 [Londres (Tamise), Marée basse}, or lot 560 [Tamise})
Etienne-Edmond-Martin, Baron de Beurnonville (1825-1906), Paris (his sale: Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 16-19 February 1885, lot 288, as Entrée d’un port)
M. Albert Bouasse-Lebel, Paris, by 1925
Sale: Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 19 March 1937, lot 167 (as La Tamise aux environs de Londres. ‘Important et beau dessin au fusain et au crayon noir. . . ‘)
Comte Arnauld Doria (1890-1977), Paris, with his etiquette and associated number, 554, on the original backing board
Thence by descent
Literature
E. Moreau-Nélaton, Daubigny raconté par lui-même, Paris, 1925, p. 146, fig. 125 (as La Tamise aux environs de Londres, “ à M. Bouasse-Lebel”)
PRIVATE COLLECTION, LONDON