Lot 400A: Apollinary Goravsky (1833-1900)

Apollinary Goravsky (1833-1900)
View of Mont Blanc from Chamonix
signed and dated 'A. Goravsky 1858' (lower right); inscribed in Russian 'View of the Mountains Mont Blanc and the Aiguilles/From the open in Chamonix/As a mark of memory/To the Gifted and kind Ivan Nikolaievich Kramskoy/From a grateful Appolinaire Gilyarevich Goravsky, 1868 31 March' (on the reverse)
oil on paper laid down on board
10 x 13½ in. (25.3 x 34.3 cm.)
Painted in 1858

Gift from the artist to Ivan Kramskoi on 31 March 1868.
Acquired by the present owner in Denmark in the 1960s.

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