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Heather Path in Bloom, James Desvarreux-Larpenteur, Signed Oil on Canvas The framed heather landscape hung above a marble topped giltwood console in a panelled entrance hall, dried flowers and a candelabrum below (Desvarreux heather path)

Heather Path in Bloom, James Desvarreux-Larpenteur, Signed Oil on Canvas

James Desvarreux-Larpenteur (1847-1937)

Listed artist

His work is held by the University of Kentucky Art Museum and the Minnesota Historical Society. He exhibited at the Paris Salon from 1877 and was a member of the Société des Artistes Français.

Medium

Oil on canvas

Painting size

8 x 14 in. (20 x 35.5 cm.)

Signature

Signed lower right in brown, within the heather

Period

Late 19th century

Framed size

12 x 17 in. (30.5 x 43 cm.)

Price

$2,700 USD

Frame. Period gilt frame, a frieze of scrolls and foliage on a lattice ground, a gadrooned course and a beaded fillet, water gilt over red bole

Condition. Original unlined canvas, the paint layer stable, with paint loss along the lower edge largely covered by the frame rebate. The period gilt frame is sound but for a loss to the ornament at the lower left corner.

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Signed heather path landscape by James Desvarreux, a sand track climbing between banks of flowering heather toward blue hills, late 19th century oil in a period gilt frame
The framed heather landscape hung above a marble topped giltwood console in a panelled entrance hall, dried flowers and a candelabrum below (Desvarreux heather path)
Reverse showing the printed notice of the artist's studio sale held at the Hôtel Drouot in Paris on 10 May 1971, pasted to the stretcher above the unlined canvas (Desvarreux heather path)
Macro of the lower left corner showing the loss to the carved ornament with the gesso exposed, and the beaded and gadrooned courses of the frame beside it
Macro of the heather worked in dry vertical strokes of rose and wine over the bare canvas weave, with the signature reading through the vegetation at the lower edge
Macro of the track showing the stones set down one by one across the sand and the heather in dry rose strokes, the valley beyond thinned to bare weave
Macro of the middle distance where a single red roof shows among the trees in the hazy valley, the only building in the picture and the one warm accent in the blue
Macro of the lower right corner showing the brown signature set within the heather, and the frame ornament intact on this angle
Signed heather path landscape by James Desvarreux, a sand track climbing between banks of flowering heather toward blue hills, late 19th century oil in a period gilt frame
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James Desvarreux-Larpenteur (1847-1937)
Heather Path in Bloom
Oil on canvas

Signed lower right. 8 x 14 inches (20 x 35.5 cm), the frame 12 x 17 inches (30.5 x 43 cm). Period gilt frame. Unlined and stable, a loss along the lower edge under the rebate, a loss to the frame ornament.

The path goes in at the bottom of the canvas and does not stop until the hills.

Heather covers the whole foreground in pink and dull purple, worked in short dabs over a darker ground, with a few tufts growing in the middle of the track itself. The sandy path climbs from the bottom edge up and to the right, its two ruts separated by a low ridge, small stones set down one by one in the sand. Beyond, the land drops away into a hazy valley where a single red roof shows among the trees, then blue hills, and the sky above is a pale band with no weather in it. Nobody is on the path.

Note

The painter died in Paris in 1937, and what remained in his studio was sold at the Hôtel Drouot. Not all at once. The printed notice pasted to the stretcher of this canvas announces the second and last sale of the studio, held in room 11 on Monday 10 May 1971, thirty-four years after his death, with landscapes of the Cantal, the Creuse, the Loire, the Pyrenees, Savoie and the Yonne among the lots. The notice is still there, beside the bare unlined canvas.

Condition report

Age shows on close inspection.

Original unlined canvas, the paint layer stable, with paint loss along the lower edge largely covered by the frame rebate. The period gilt frame is sound but for a loss to the ornament at the lower left corner.

James Desvarreux-Larpenteur (1847-1937)

Heather Path in Bloom, James Desvarreux-Larpenteur, Signed Oil on Canvas

James Desvarreux-Larpenteur (1847-1937)
Size 8 x 14 in.Framed 12 x 17 in.
ConditionGood See report and photos ↓
FramePeriod frame · Giltwood
Medium Oil on canvasLate 19th century
Price $2,700 USD
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Signed heather path landscape by James Desvarreux, a sand track climbing between banks of flowering heather toward blue hills, late 19th century oil in a period gilt frame
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Oil on canvas · Late 19th century · Signed · Period frame

The reverse

Unlined canvas, the printed notice of the 1971 Drouot studio sale pasted to the stretcher

Artist
James Desvarreux-Larpenteur (1847-1937)
Origin
France
Style
Naturalism
Size
8 x 14 in. (20 x 35.5 cm.)
Signature
Signed lower right in brown, within the heather
Frame
Period frameGiltwoodPeriod gilt frame, a frieze of scrolls and foliage on a lattice ground, a gadrooned course and a beaded fillet, water gilt over red boleFramed 12 x 17 in. (30.5 x 43 cm.)

What the grades mean

All grades are relative to the age of the painting. They describe the painting itself, the frame is described separately. Fine age craquelure is normal and never lowers a grade.

Where signs of age can be seenUp closeAt normal viewing distance
Very goodminorNo
GoodThis paintingYesNo
FairYesYes
Needs conservationYesdamage

GoodThis painting

Stable. Signs of age or earlier restoration are visible on close inspection, such as small retouches or a slightly yellowed varnish. The overall appearance is intact.

Other grades

Very good

Stable. Only minor, old retouches or very small losses, not distracting at normal viewing distance. The canvas may have been relined or cleaned in the past.

Fair

Stable and ready to hang, but wear or earlier restoration is noticeable at normal viewing distance, such as visible retouching, a discoloured varnish or scattered small losses.

Needs conservation

Visible damage a conservator should treat, such as flaking, a tear, larger losses or heavy old repaint. Every issue is shown in the photographs.

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Heather Path in Bloom

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