STANISLAS LÉPINE
French, 1835-1892
L’Île de la Grande Jatte
Oil on canvas
13 x 16¼ inches (33 x 41 cm)
Framed: 20 x 23½ inches (50.8 x 59.7 cm)
Painted circa 1877-1882, this is one of several depictions of the Seine at Courbevoie which Lépine painted during the same period in which Alfred Sisley, Claude Monet and other Impressionist painters were also producing views of this location. A slightly larger view of L’Île de la Grande Jatte, similarly depicting a woman fishing by the same group of trees, is included in Robert and Manuel Schmidt’s Lépine catalogue raisonné (no. 406). A small oil study on panel of this subject, titled Bords de Seine en aval de Paris - Le Bachot, was sold at L’Huillier & Associés, Paris on October 18, 2022 (no. 523 in the Lépine catalogue raisonné).
The stamp of the canvas maker Ray & Perrot is on the reverse of the present canvas, a firm used regularly by Lépine. While the present work is unsigned, it came from the same collection, with the same provenance and dimensions, as a signed painting by the artist (from the same canvas maker) sold at auction in Paris in 2015.
Provenance
Private Collection, France
Thence by descent to Frères Gras (sale, Tessier Sarrou & Associés, Paris, October 14, 2015, lot 27.bis, illustrated)
Literature
cf. Robert and Manuel Schmidt, Stanislas Lépine 1835-1892: Catalogue Raisonné de l’Oeuvre Peint, Paris, 1993, p. 170, no. 406; and p. 209, no. 523, for related views of L’Île de la Grande Jatte
$26,000