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HENRI-JOSEPH HARPIGNIES Un Bien Aller dans la Foret du Tronçais.
Oil on canvas. 810x1015 mm; 31 7/8x40 inches. Signed in oil, lower left recto.
Provenance: Sold Christie's, New York, November 1, 1999, sale 9248, lot 56; Marlborough Gallery, New York, with the label on the frame back.
Exhibited: "Harpignies: Paintings-Watercolors-Drawings," Marlborough Fine Art, London, February-March, 1957, number 30.
The Forest of Tronçais is a massive (26,000 acres) national forest in the center of France. The oaks of Tronçais are prized for the barrels coopered for cognac and the great wines of Bordeaux. The forest was also a frequent subject of the Barbizon school painters, among them Harpignies (1819-1916) and his close friend Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot.
