Lot 84: CHARLES-AUGUSTE VAN DEN BERGHE

BEAUVAIS 1798-1853 PARIS VENICE, A VIEW OF THE DOGANA SEEN THROUGH A LARGE DOORWAY signed, lower right: Ate VandenBerghe oil on canvas 18 by 15 in.; 45.8 by 38 cm.

Paris, Salon, 1833, no. 2317.

Anonymous sale, New York, Sotheby's, 26 January 2007, lot 171.

A pupil of Baron Gros and Girodet, Charles-Auguste van den Berghe spent several years in Rome, producing views of the city under the tutelage of Pierre-Narcisse Guérin which proved popular in his native France. Upon his return to Paris in 1833, van den Berghe was to exhibit this atmospheric Venetian view among his other paintings at the Salon and was awarded the second class medal for his Portrait of M. Bertini, exhibited as no. 2324.