PAUL CAMILLE GUIGOU
French, 1834-1871

Le Pont du Gard

Signed Paul Guigou
Oil on canvas
10¾ x 15¾ inches (27.3 x 40 cm)
Framed: 14¾ x 19¾ inches (37.5 x 50.2 cm)

Painted circa 1866, this work depicts the ancient Roman aqueduct, built circa 40-60 AD, near Avignon in Provence.

Gustave Bourrageas (1877-1940), an early owner of this painting, was the son of Denis Bourrageas (1843-1902), a prominent art collector and the founding director of the Marseille journal Le Petit Marseillais. Gustave Bourrageas succeeded his father as director of the journal and in 1924 Le Petit Marseillais used Le Pont du Gard as the image for its calendar poster. Another work by Guigou, Place Publique à Saint-Paul-Lès-Durance (1864), was also formerly in the Bourrageas collection [Lamort de Gail, no. 50].

Provenance
Gustave Bourrageas
Margaret de Graeff (sale, Christie’s, New York, November 2, 1999, lot 49, illustrated)
Sale, Christie’s, Paris, June 24, 2004, lot 153, illustrated (sold for € 65,800)

Exhibited
Paris, Musée du Luxembourg, Paul Guigou 1834-1871, 1927, no. 26
Marseille, Galerie Detaille, Guigou, 1927, no. 25
Paris, Alfred Daber, Guigou 1834-1871: Exposition de Trente-Neuf Tableaux, 1950, no. 26, illustrated

Literature
Le Petit Marseillais, Marseilles, 1924, annual calendar illustration
Katharina Scholz, Paul Guigou und die Provencalische Landschaftsmalerie des 19. Jahrhunderts [Ph.D. dissertation], University of Hamburg, 1954, pp. 117-8, no. 40
François Daulte, “Un Provençal Pur: Paul Guigou”, Connaissance des Arts, Paris, No. 98, April 1960, p. 75, illustrated
Sylvie Lamort de Gail, Paul Guigou: Catalogue Raisonné, Paris, 1989, Vol. I, p. 150, no. 222, illustrated

$27,000

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