Departure for the Hunt in the Pontine Marshes

Horace Vernet1833

Details

Title: Departure for the Hunt in the Pontine Marshes
Creator: Horace Vernet
Date Created: 1833
Physical Dimensions: overall: 100 x 150.7 cm (39 3/8 x 59 5/16 in.)
Provenance: Pierre-Hippolyte Aumont [d. 1865], by 1846.[1] Probably (sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 6 May 1870, no. 5, as _Vue dans la forêt de Nettuno_).[2] Private collection, France; (sale, Drouot Richelieu, Renaud-Giquello & Associates, Paris, 17 October 2003, no. 52); (Richard L. Feigen & Co., New York); purchased 27 February 2004 by NGA. [1] According to the 2003 sale catalogue, Pierre-Hipppolyte Aumont likely owned this painting at the time he lent its pendant, Vernet's _Hunting in the Pontine Marshes_ (NGA 1989.3.1), to an 1846 exhibition at the Bazar Bonne-Nouvelle. [2] Bruno Chenique has suggested that this is the NGA painting, sold together with NGA 1989.3.1, which was lot 4, _Chasse dans les marais Pontins_, in the sale catalogue.
Medium: oil on canvas

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