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DescriptionProperty from a Distinguished Private Collection Richard Parkes BoningtonArnold 1801 - 1828 LondonParis - The Pont des Arts and Île de la Cité from the Quai du Louvre
Watercolour and bodycolour over pencil;signed and dated lower right: R.P.B. 1828.152 by 226 mmCondition reportOverall in good condition, many of the colours are very well preserved. The sheet has 'seen' light over time and the sky has lightened a little as a result. This is only really noticeable at the upper edge. The sheet is attached to museum quality mount at various places verso.ProvenanceProbably the artist's estate sale, London, Leigh Sotheby's, 24 February 1838, lot 1838, lot 55 ('The late Mrs Bonington was offered one hundred guineas for this specimen of her son's highly gifted talent), bt. Austen, £27;
Mrs Sara Austen;
sale, London, Christie's, 10 April 1889, lot 44 (as Quai du Louvre), bt. Vokins;
with Vokins, London;
S.G. Holland, London, by 1891;
sale, London, Christie's, 25 June 1908, lot 138, bt Agnew's;
with Agnew's, London;
Lewis Edward Raphael (1857-1914),
Hubert Raphael (1910-1972), by 1962;
with Agnew's, London;
Edward Rome, Philadelphia;
sale, London, Sotheby's, 10 March 1988, lot 58, bt. Agnew's,
by whom sold to the present ownersLiteratureJ. Roundell, Thomas Shotter Boys 1803-1874, London 1974, pl. 24;C. Peacock, Richard Parkes Bonington New York, 1980, pl. IX;G. Baurer, The Eloquence of Colour, The Genius of Bonington's Contemporaries, Levallois-Perret 2003, p. 55, no. 60;P. Noon, Richard Parkes Bonington 'on the pleasure of painting', New Haven, 1991, p. 302;idem, Richard Parkes Bonington the complete paintings, New Haven 2008, p. 183, no. 159; idem, Richard Parkes Bonington the complete drawings, New Haven 2011, p. 194
ExhibitedKing's Lynn, Norfolk, Agnew's, Pictures Watercolours and Drawings by R.P. Bonington, 1962, no. 43;
Nottingham, Nottingham Castle Museum and Art Gallery, R.P. Bonington, 1802-1828, 1965, no. 226;
London, The Wallace Collection, The Discovery of Pairs, Watercolours by Early Nineteenth-Century British Artists, 2013, no. 28
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