Lot 9: VASILY  VASILEVICH  VERESHCHAGIN

PROPERTY  FROM  A  DISTINGUISHED  AMERICAN  COLLECTION
1842-1904
THE  SPY
bearing  American  Art  Association  stamps  on  the  stretcher;  further  titled  and  inscribed  with  Samuel  Ullman's  name  and  address  on  a  label  and  numbered  97  on  the  frame
oil  on  canvas
155.5  by  129cm,  61  1/4    by  50  3/4  in.

New York, American Art Galleries, Exhibition of the Works of Vassili Verestchagin, November-December 1888, no. 84 (travelling exhibition, visiting the Chicago Art Institute, January-March 1889, St. Louis, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Boston et al.)

V. Verestchagin, Exhibition of the Works of Vassili Verestchagin, Illustrated Descriptive Catalogue, New York, 1888, p.59, no.84
V. Verestchagin, Illustrated Descriptive Catalogue of the Vassili Verestchagin Collection, New York, 1891, p.58, no.97
'The Verestchagin Sale: Livelier Bidding on the Second Evening - The Prices Realized' in The New York Times, 19 November 1891

American Art Galleries, New York, Vassili Verestchagin Collection sale, 17-18 November, 1891, lot 97
Samuel Ullman, New York
Private Collection, United States, circa 1950