Live Auction 16391European Art: Part II
Henri Joseph Harpignies (French, 1819-1916)
Lot 113 PROPERTY FROM AN AMERICAN COLLECTION

Henri Joseph Harpignies (French, 1819-1916)

La Mediterranée entre Menton et Le Cap Martin

Closed31 October 2018

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Henri Joseph Harpignies (French, 1819-1916)
La Mediterranée entre Menton et Le Cap Martin
signed and dated 'hjharpignies. 1900.' (lower left)
oil on canvas
25 ¾ x 32 ¼ in. (65.4 x 81.9 cm.)

with Arnold & Tripp, Paris.
with M. Knoedler & Co., acquired from the above, 29 July 1901.
A. Gross, Philadelphia, acquired from the above, 3 April 1902.
Peter A. Schemm (1852-1909), Philadelphia.
His estate sale; American Art Galleries, New York, 14-17 March 1911, lot 285, as Summer.
Harold and Grace Riley, New York and New Jersey, by 1960.
By descent to the present owner.

Specialist note

Peter Schemm, who owned this painting around the turn of the century, was the owner of an eponymous Philadelphia brewery which had been founded by his father, a German emigré. Shemm's art collection was one of the best known in Philadelphia at the time, and the several hundred canvases he owned were housed in a specially-built gallery that was connected to his brewery at 25th and Poplar streets.