Lot 137
Attributed to Thomas Couture (1815-1879)
Provenance:
Ex. Private Collection Daniel Cottier, New York artist and patron of Barbizon artists, with him for 40 years;
D. Cottier & Co., New York, from whom purchased by Sir William Van Horne, Montreal on November 26, 1889 as “Constant Troyon”
Note:
According to the family records, Van Horne purchased this painting from D. Cottier & Co., New York on November 1889 for $2,750.00 as a work by Constant Troyon depicting a portrait of George Sand (pseudonym of Amandine-Aurora-Lucille Dupin) playing a guitar. This work, from Cottier’s Private Collection, hung over his mantle for over 40 years. Couture may have painted this portrait as he is recorded to have painted others of the sitter before 1850. Ms. Dupin was a French novelist and a pioneer of feminism.