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Henri Joseph Harpignies
Chercheurs d’écrevisses (Flusskrebsfischer), Wohl 1857.
Oil on canvas
Estimate:
€ 4,000 - 6,000
$ 4,400 - 6,600
Chercheurs d’écrevisses (Flusskrebsfischer). Wohl 1857.
Oil on canvas.
Signed lower left. Verso on the stretcher with a hand-written number and a label of the Galerie Bühler, Munich. 98 x 71 cm (38.5 x 27.9 in).
• Rare work from the artist's early period of creation
• One of the first paintings presented at the Paris Salon in 1857
• His contemporaries honored Harpignies as the “Michelangelo of trees and peaceful landscapes”.
• Works by the artist can be found in the Musée d'Orsay, Paris, the Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
We are grateful to Dr. Jean-Pierre Cappoen, Université de Lille Laboratoire IRHIS, for his kind expert advice.
PROVENANCE: Galerie Dr. Hans-Peter Bühler, Munich.
Private collection Lower Saxony (acquired from the above in 1984).
EXHIBITION: Salon des Artistes français, Paris 1857, no. 1310.
Visions de la nature en France du XIXe siècle, Musée des Beaux-Arts et d’Archéologie Besançon, April-Mai 1986.
LITERATURE: Hans-Peter Bühler, Henri-Joseph Harpignies. Michelangelo der Bäume, in: Weltkunst, year 54, no. 9, 1984, pp. 1243-1247.
Jean-Pierre Cappoen, Henri Harpignies (1819-1916) et les salons. Leurs roles dans sa carrière, dans sa réception et la fortune critique de son œuvre (doctor thesis at. Université de Lille, in preparation), no. 1310, illu. 9.
"I can absolutely understand that there are people like Daubigny and Harpignies and Ruysdael and so many others who are irresistibly taken with landscapes, entirely satisfied by their work, as they are simply happy with the air, the soil, a pond and a shrub."
Vincent van Gogh to his brother Theo van Gogh, between February 5 and 16, 1885, letter no. 483.
Called up: December 7, 2024 - ca. 13.04 h +/- 20 min.
Oil on canvas.
Signed lower left. Verso on the stretcher with a hand-written number and a label of the Galerie Bühler, Munich. 98 x 71 cm (38.5 x 27.9 in).
• Rare work from the artist's early period of creation
• One of the first paintings presented at the Paris Salon in 1857
• His contemporaries honored Harpignies as the “Michelangelo of trees and peaceful landscapes”.
• Works by the artist can be found in the Musée d'Orsay, Paris, the Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
We are grateful to Dr. Jean-Pierre Cappoen, Université de Lille Laboratoire IRHIS, for his kind expert advice.
PROVENANCE: Galerie Dr. Hans-Peter Bühler, Munich.
Private collection Lower Saxony (acquired from the above in 1984).
EXHIBITION: Salon des Artistes français, Paris 1857, no. 1310.
Visions de la nature en France du XIXe siècle, Musée des Beaux-Arts et d’Archéologie Besançon, April-Mai 1986.
LITERATURE: Hans-Peter Bühler, Henri-Joseph Harpignies. Michelangelo der Bäume, in: Weltkunst, year 54, no. 9, 1984, pp. 1243-1247.
Jean-Pierre Cappoen, Henri Harpignies (1819-1916) et les salons. Leurs roles dans sa carrière, dans sa réception et la fortune critique de son œuvre (doctor thesis at. Université de Lille, in preparation), no. 1310, illu. 9.
"I can absolutely understand that there are people like Daubigny and Harpignies and Ruysdael and so many others who are irresistibly taken with landscapes, entirely satisfied by their work, as they are simply happy with the air, the soil, a pond and a shrub."
Vincent van Gogh to his brother Theo van Gogh, between February 5 and 16, 1885, letter no. 483.
Called up: December 7, 2024 - ca. 13.04 h +/- 20 min.
103
Henri Joseph Harpignies
Chercheurs d’écrevisses (Flusskrebsfischer), Wohl 1857.
Oil on canvas
Estimate:
€ 4,000 - 6,000
$ 4,400 - 6,600
Buyer's premium and taxation for Henri Joseph Harpignies "Chercheurs d’écrevisses (Flusskrebsfischer)"
This lot can be purchased subject to differential or regular taxation.
Differential taxation:
Hammer price up to 800,000 €: herefrom 32 % premium.
The share of the hammer price exceeding 800,000 € is subject to a premium of 27 % and is added to the premium of the share of the hammer price up to 800,000 €.
The share of the hammer price exceeding 4,000,000 € is subject to a premium of 22 % and is added to the premium of the share of the hammer price up to 4,000,000 €.
The buyer's premium contains VAT, however, it is not shown.
Regular taxation:
Hammer price up to 800,000 €: herefrom 27 % premium.
The share of the hammer price exceeding 800,000 € is subject to a premium of 21% and is added to the premium of the share of the hammer price up to 800,000 €.
The share of the hammer price exceeding 4,000,000 € is subject to a premium of 15% and is added to the premium of the share of the hammer price up to 4,000,000 €.
The statutory VAT of currently 19 % is levied to the sum of hammer price and premium. As an exception, the reduced VAT of 7 % is added for printed books.
We kindly ask you to notify us before invoicing if you wish to be subject to regular taxation.
Differential taxation:
Hammer price up to 800,000 €: herefrom 32 % premium.
The share of the hammer price exceeding 800,000 € is subject to a premium of 27 % and is added to the premium of the share of the hammer price up to 800,000 €.
The share of the hammer price exceeding 4,000,000 € is subject to a premium of 22 % and is added to the premium of the share of the hammer price up to 4,000,000 €.
The buyer's premium contains VAT, however, it is not shown.
Regular taxation:
Hammer price up to 800,000 €: herefrom 27 % premium.
The share of the hammer price exceeding 800,000 € is subject to a premium of 21% and is added to the premium of the share of the hammer price up to 800,000 €.
The share of the hammer price exceeding 4,000,000 € is subject to a premium of 15% and is added to the premium of the share of the hammer price up to 4,000,000 €.
The statutory VAT of currently 19 % is levied to the sum of hammer price and premium. As an exception, the reduced VAT of 7 % is added for printed books.
We kindly ask you to notify us before invoicing if you wish to be subject to regular taxation.