Lot 149: JEAN-BRUNO GASSIES BORDEAUX 1786 - 1832 PARIS

A VIEW OF LOCH LOMOND, SCOTLAND, WITH FIGURES ON A PATH IN THE FOREGROUND

measurements note
9 5/8 by 12 3/4 in.; 24.5 by 32.5 cm.

signed and dated lower left Gassies./ 1824

oil on canvas

PROVENANCE

Marquis de Cypierre, 1824;
His deceased sale, Paris, M. Bonnefons Delavialle, March 10, 1845, lot 58, for 108 francs;
Anonymous sale, Paris, Neret-Minet Scp, March 15, 2002, lot 52.

EXHIBITED

Paris, Salon, 1824, no. 720.

NOTE

Gassies, a member of the French navy, was captured and imprisoned by the English and it may have been after his release that he had the opportunity to explore England and Scotland. He was much taken by the English school of painters and returned several times, in 1821, 1824 and 1826, when he painted his Paysage d'Ecosse in Autun, Musée Rolin. He was a pupil of Jacques-Louis David and, after the 1822 salon, was decorated with the Legion d'honneur.