WOLFGANG-ADAM TÖPFFER (GENEVA 1766-1847 MORILLON) L'embarquement (esquisse pour Joséphine) oil on canvas 23 3/8 x 26 ½ in. (59.4 x 67.3 cm.) Painted before 1814.
WOLFGANG-ADAM TÖPFFER (GENEVA 1766-1847 MORILLON) L'embarquement (esquisse pour Joséphine) oil on canvas 23 3/8 x 26 ½ in. (59.4 x 67.3 cm.) Painted before 1814.
The artist, commissioned by Empress Joséphine, but not completed before her death in 1814. His estate sale; Geneva, 1847, no. 69. Private collection, Geneva. Gustave Martin, Geneva. Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, Zurich, 27 November 1984, lot 40. Patrice de Weck, Geneva. Anonymous sale; Christie's, Zurich, 17 June 1991, lot 254, as L'embarquement pour la noce. Private collection, Switzerland. Their sale; Sotheby's, Zurich, 5 June 1996, lot 30, as L'embarcation de la noce. Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
L. Boissonnas, Wolfgang-Adam Töpffer (1766-1847): catalogue raisonné des peintures, Bern, 2011, p. 168, no. LBP 82, illustrated.
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