About this lot
Description
* Continental School, 19th century
Mountain torrent with trees and boys on a rock
inscribed indistinctly 'JIb(?)etson' (lower right)
oil on canvas
59.5 x 81.5cm
Provenance:
The Asbjorn Lunde Foundation, Inc.
Footnote:
All proceeds from the sale of this and another eleven paintings (lots 57-68) will benefit the activities of the Asbjorn Lunde Foundation, Inc., which continues its founder’s support of research, publishing, presentation, and practice in museums and music. Throughout his long life, Mr. Lunde supported more than forty museums in his native New York, across the United States, and in Europe with loans, gifts, and funding. Mr. Lunde was a proud New Yorker with roots in Norway. He was keenly interested in nineteenth-century Scandinavian and Swiss landscape painting, Old master painting, and Asian decorative arts.
Condition report:
Framed 78 x 99cm
The painting is executed in oil on a linen canvas support which has been lined. A few old tears have been repaired through lining, the fill and overpaint have a slightly lumpen texture but are generally acceptable from a normal viewing distance. The paint layer is stable and secure. The varnish is clear, even and semi-matte.
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