Andre Bauchant - La demande en mariage (Couple de paysan avec des moutons) - image-1

Lot 342 D

Andre Bauchant - La demande en mariage (Couple de paysan avec des moutons)

Auction 1033 - overview Cologne
30.05.2014, 18:00 - Modern Art
Estimate: 3.000 € - 4.000 €
Result: 4.270 € (incl. premium)

Andre Bauchant

La demande en mariage (Couple de paysan avec des moutons)
1924

Oil on canvas laid down on card 48 x 56.4 cm, card 48.2 x 57.2 cm Framed. Signed and dated 'A.Bauchant 1924' lower right. - In good condition. The margins partly minimally rubbed.

The motif of this painting was probably inspired by George Sand's “La mare au diable”, a famous and popular novel written in 1846. A young shepherdess from Berry, wearing the traditional headdress of this region, is depicted on the right; the young man to the left, a wealthy young farmer, is proposing to her.

Catalogue Raisonné

Not recorded by Vierny

Certificate

With an expertise by Francoise Bauchant, Le Boulay, dated 10 April 2014 (no. 2014.09)

Provenance

Richard Möring, Paris/Hamburg (circa 1965); collection Reinhart Wolf, Hamburg; Private possession, North Germany