Emile Claus

(1849-1924)

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1899
Oil on canvas
133 x 203 cm (52³/₈ x 79⁷/₈ inches)
Signed below: Emile Claus
Monogram and date on reverse: E.C. / ii

Signed lower centre: Emile Claus

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Literature
- Buysse, C., Emile Claus. Mijn broeder in Vlaanderen (Ghent/ Bussum: 1925), 30.
- De Smet, J., Retrospective Emile Claus, exh. cat. (Antwerp: Pandora, 1997), 157, cat.no. 87 (ill.).
- Pauwels, P.J.H., Als een fonkelenden spiegel (Sint-Martens-Latem: Galerie Oscar De Vos, 2019), 129 (ill.).

Study paintings and comparable works of this subject: 
- Lemonnier, C., Emile Claus (Brussels: G. Van Oest & Co., 1908), 27-28, 30-31, 34-35.
- De Smet, J., Emile Claus, exh. cat. (Ghent: SD&Z/ Pandora/ Gemeentekrediet, 1997), 150-151, 154-155, cat.no. 78-80, 84-85.
- De Smet, J., Emile Claus en het landleven, exh. cat. (Ghent: Mercatorfonds/ MSK, 2009), 118-121, cat.no. 70-73.
Exhibitions
- 1997, Ostend, Museum of Fine Arts (currently MuZee), Retrospective Emile Claus, cat.no. 87 (ill.).
Provenance
Xavier Lelièvre, Brussels
Description
Studies and comparable works of the same subject: 
- Lemonnier, C., Emile Claus (Brussels: G. Van Oest & Co., 1908), 27-28, 30-31, 34-35.
- De Smet, J., Retrospective Emile Claus, exh. cat. (Ghent: SD&Z/ Pandora/ Gemeentekrediet, 1997), 150-151, 154-155, cat.no. 78-80, 84-85.
- De Smet, J., Emile Claus en het landleven, exh. cat. (Ghent: Mercatorfonds/MSK, 2009), 118-121, cat.no. 70-73.

References:
Emile Claus, Koeien bij het oversteken van de Leie, 1899, oil on canvas, 200 x 305 cm, inv.no. 3584.

Provenance: bought at the 'Salon La Libre Esthétique', Bruxelles, 1901, cat.no. 121.
Works by Monet, Cézanne, Pissarro, Renoir and others were also shown and sold during this salon.

 
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