Live Auction 758719th Century European Art including Orientalist and Spanish Art
Robert Charles Gustave Laurens Mols (Belgian, 1848-1903)
Lot 264

Robert Charles Gustave Laurens Mols (Belgian, 1848-1903)

Canale Della Giudecca, Palazzo Ducale and Santa Maria de la Salute, Venice

Closed2 July 2008

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GBP 7,500

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Robert Charles Gustave Laurens Mols (Belgian, 1848-1903)
Canale Della Giudecca, Palazzo Ducale and Santa Maria de la Salute, Venice
signed 'Robert Mols.' (lower left)
oil on canvas
23½ x 43 3/8 in. (59.8 x 110.3 cm.)

Anonymous sale; Charles van Heerck & Zoon, Antwerp, sale 205, no. 48.
Acquired at the above sale by Mr. Cordelay.

Specialist note

Robert Mols was a student of Jean-François Millet and Jules Dupré in Paris, later travelling throughout Europe in search of the seaside views from which he drew such inspiration. The present lot is a fine example of the way in which he delighted in rendering the marvellous effects of wide horizon-lines and the changing moods of the sea, set against one of the most spectacular vistas of Venice.