Durand-Ruel, Paris
Baron Louis de Chollet, Paris
Private Collection, England (acquired in 1981 and sold: Christie's, London, June 24, 2009, lot 101)
Acquired at the above sale

Oxford, Ashmolean Museum; Manchester, City Art Gallery & Glasgow, The Burrell Collection, Impressionist Drawings from British Public and Private Collections, 1986, no. 77, illustrated in the catalogue

Executed on cream colored laid paper, hinged to a mount at two places on verso. Top, right and bottom edges are deckled. Evidence of a prior mounting visible along top edge and in a few places on extreme right edge, both outside of the image area. Small loss at the center of the top edge and a few pindot holes near this loss. There is a mat stain around the perimater of the work, outside of the image area. The sheet is slightly time darkened overall. There is evidence of a repaired tear on the verso, about five inches in length which has been sensitively restored to the left of the tree and a small restoration at the center of the bottom. This works is in generally good condition.
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