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Lot 1641 Dα

François Verheyden - Summer Games

Auction 1057 - overview Cologne
14.11.2015, 11:00 - Old Master and 19th Century Paintings and Drawings
Estimate: 15.000 € - 20.000 €
Result: 14.880 € (incl. premium)

François Verheyden

Summer Games

Oil on panel. 70 x 53 cm.
Signed and dated lower left: F. Verheyden 1855.

François Verheyden was born in Leuven and taught by Jerome Langlois in Paris. He is known for his elegant, perfectly executed genre paintings depicting scenes of rural life from his homeland.

Provenance

664th Lempertz auction, 27.5.1991, lot 373. - Private collection, Baden-Württemberg.

Literature

Boetticher: Malerwerke des 19. Jahrhunderts. II/2, p. 925, no. 3.