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One has to discover this piece of nature, a desert, around 15 leagues away from Paris.
At the bottom of the hill, the Seine is flowing, scattered with large islands, which create in between
them lovely branches of the river. – EMILE ZOLA, “BOHÈMES EN VILLÉGIATURE,” i n LES TYPES DE PARIS

5 Jean Béraud

F R E N C H , 1 8 4 9 — 1 9 3 5
UN FIGARO DE RÊVE
signed Jean Béraud (lower left)
oil on canvas
25 ¹/₂ by 21 ¹/₂ in. (64.8 by 54.6 cm.)

PR O V E N A NC E

G. von Bodem
M. Morel
Galerie Brame et Lorenceau, Paris (1986)
Noortman Gallery, Maastricht
Private Collection, Connecticut (acquired from the above in 1999)

E X HIB I T E D
Paris, Grand Palais, XIIIe Biennale internationale des antiquaires, 1986,
illustrated p. 7 (Brame et Lorenceau)
Maastricht, The European Fine Art Fair, 1999 (Noortman Gallery)

LI T ER A T U R E

S. Haitay, “Un événement. La XIIIe Biennale des antiquaries,” Le Figaro,
September 20, 1986, p. 196, illustrated (black and white)
Patrick Offenstadt, Jean Béraud 1849-1935, The Belle Époque, A Dream
of Times Gone By, Catalogue Raisonné, Köln, 1999, illustrated p. 235, no.
305 (color)
The Magazine Antiques, vol. 164, issue 1, July 2003, illustrated inside
front cover (color)

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