Lot 47: Félix Armand Heullant (French, born 1834) Char nuptial, Japon 26 1/2 x 39 1/2in (67.5 x 100cm)

Félix Armand Heullant (French, born 1834)
Char nuptial, Japon
signed 'A. Heullant' (lower left)
oil on panel
26 1/2 x 39 1/2in (67.5 x 100cm)
Footnotes

Provenance
Sale, Sotheby's, Olympia, 11 December 2003, lot 230;
with Kurt E. Schon, Ltd, New Orleans.

Exhibited
Paris, Salon, 1882, no. 1342.
Odessa, Texas, Ellen Noel Museum of Art, Where Will You Travel Next?-Destinations in Paintings, November 2012-February 2013; Albany, New York, Albany Museum of Art, January-April 2014; Allentown, Pennsylvania, Allentown Museum of the Lehigh Valley, June-September 2014; Scranton, Pennsylvania, Everhart Museum of Natural History, Science & Art, February-June 2015; Lakeland, Florida, Polk Museum of Art, July-December 2015.

Literature
Émile Bellier and Louis Auvray, Dictionnaire général des artistes de l'école française depuis l'origine des arts du dessin jusqu'à nos jours, New York & London, 1979, Vol. II, p. 237;
John D. Champlin, Jr., Cyclopedia of Painters and Paintings, New York, 1885, Vol. II, p. 252;
Michel Aubert, L'Art officiel à la fin du XIXe siècle : dessins et peintures, Château de Blois, 1976, p. 38.
James Allen Scott, Where Will You Travel Next? Destinations in Paintings, 2011, p. 86, illustrated.