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Jacques-Laurent Agasse (Geneva 1767-1849 London)
Lot 22Property from the Collection of the Late Edouard Pictet (lots 21-25)

Jacques-Laurent Agasse (Geneva 1767-1849 London)

George Irving with his black hunter beneath a blasted oak, hounds being put into a covert beyond

Fermé5 July 2011

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Jacques-Laurent Agasse (Geneva 1767-1849 London)
George Irving with his black hunter beneath a blasted oak, hounds being put into a covert beyond
oil on canvas
34 3/8 x 43 7/8 in. (87.5 x 111.5 cm.)

By descent to Mrs Murray-Usher; Christie's, Edinburgh, 11 May 1984, lot 494.
with Richard Green, London.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 12 July 1995, lot 166 (sold £155,500 to E. Pictet).

Note du spécialiste

George Irving (1774-1820), the son of John Irving of Burnfoot, Ecclefechan, Dumfriesshire, was Chairman of the Colonial Bank and the Royal Steam Packet Company. His brother John was a partner in Reid Irving & Co., who in 1816-17 won a contract reputedly worth over a million pounds to supply uniforms to the Russian army. Another work by Agasse, showing George Irving riding in an extensive landscape, was included in the Agasse exhibition at the Musée d'Art et d'Histoire, Geneva, and the Tate Gallery, London, in 1988-89, no. 20.