Lot 148: EMILE FRIANT | Mount Vesuvius

Oil on canvas

36 x 54 cm ; 14 1/8  by 21 1/4  in.

Oil on canvas

Les 33, galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 1889 n°113 ;
Émile Friant, regard sur l'homme et l'œuvre, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Nancy, 8 July- 4 October 1988, illustrated p.66 n°60 ;
Emile Friant un nouveau regard, Musée Georges de la Tour, Vic-sur-Seille, 10 June - 3 September 2006, illustrated n°37, p.54 ;
Emile Friant, le dernier naturaliste ?, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Nancy, 4 November 2016 - 27 February 2017, n°38a, illustrated p. 96

Maurice Garçot, "Emile Friant", in Revue Lorraine Illustrée, Nancy, Imprimeries Réunies, 1931, mentionned p. 73 ;
Henri Claude, Friant, Vaux, 2005, illustrated p.69

C. Coquelin Collection ;
His sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 27 May 1893, n°38 ;
Corbin Collection ;  
His sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 19 & 20 October 1936, lot 38 ;
Purchased from the above by the current owner's grandfather