
inscribed indistinctly lower left; unframed
18 x 27.5 in (45.7 x 69.8 cm)
(including Buyer's Premium)
Private Collection, Quebec
By descent to Daniel McGie
Miss Jane P. McGie, Quebec
Private Collection
Joyner Fine Art, auction, Toronto, 15-16 May 1990, lot 145
Private Collection, Toronto
Marius Barbeau, Cornelius Krieghoff, Pioneer Painter of North America, Toronto, 1934, listed on page 149 as The Admiral's Message (after Lepoitevin)
Eugene Lepoitevin (1806-1870) was a French painter of marine subjects. This copy would have been executed between 1845 and 1861.