LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

50.39 in. (128.00 cm.) (height) by 39.76 in. (101.00 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed with initials 'JL.A' (upper right, on the tree)

Exhibited:

Geneva, Musée d'Art et d'Histoire, and London, Tate Gallery, Jacques-Laurent Agasse, 1988-89, no. 35.

Literature:

The artist's account book, May 1816, 'Portrait of a setter dog ½ length'. C.F. Hardy, J.L. Agasse: his life, his work, manuscript, Geneva, Musée d'Art et d'Histoire, 1905, p. 53. C.F. Hardy, La vie et l'oeuvre de Jaques-Laurent Agasse, March 1921, illustrated. Sporting Art in Britain: A Loan Exhibition to celebrate twenty-five years of the British Sporting Art Trust, catalogue for the exhibition held at Christie's, King Street, 2003, p. 18, under no. 38.

Provenance:

Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 18 November 1960, lot 118.