HENRI LOUIS SCOTT
French, 1846-1884
Pont-tourné à Saint-François, Le Havre
Signed and dated H. SCOTT 1882
Oil on canvas
39½ x 63 inches (100 x 160 cm)
Framed: 48 x 72 inches (122 x 183 cm)
Provenance
Sale, Sotheby’s, New York, February 24, 1987, lot 104, illustrated
Private Collection, New York, acquired at the above sale (sale, Sotheby’s, New York, January 26, 2008, lot 265, illustrated)
Private Collection, Massachusetts, acquired at the above sale
Exhibited
Paris, Salon, 1882, no. 2440
Literature
F.-G. Dumas, ed., Catalogue Illustré du Salon, Paris, 1882, p. 83, illustrated, as Au quartier Saint-François (Havre)
Ludovic Baschet, ed., L’Exposition des Beaux-Arts (Salon de 1882), Paris, 1882, p. 238, “…la vue du Havre, de M. H. Scott, d’une composition habile, d’un dessin ingénieux."
“Guide Critique du Salon de 1882,” Clairon (supplement), Paris, 1882, p. 8
$75,000