Ozias Leduc, Batteurs au fléau (Du train qu’ils y allaient ...), charcoal with white gouache highlights on laid paper, 1899

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Batteurs au fléau (Du train qu’ils y allaient ...), 1899

charcoal with white gouache highlights on laid paper

monogrammed and dated 1899 lower right; “A mademoiselle Fernande Choquette O. Leduc” inscribed lower left; titled and dated to three labels on the reverse

12.5 × 18 in (31.8 × 45.7 cm) (image)

Auction Estimate:$2,000 - $3,000

Sale date:April 9 - 23, 2024

Price Realized

$3,360

(including Buyer's Premium)

Provenance

Studio of the Artist Collection of Edouard Clerk and Fernande Choquette, Saint-Hilaire By descent to the present Private Collection, Quebec

Exhibited

“Ozias Leduc: An Art of Love and Reverie”, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts; travelling to Musée du Québec, Québec City; Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, 22 February 1996‒15 January 1997, no. 96 as “Du train qu’ils y allaient...”

Literature

Laurier Lacroix, “Ozias Leduc: An Art of Love and Reverie”, Montreal, 1996, no. 96, reproduced page 131