Lot 65: EMILE CHARLES LECOMTE-VERNET

EMILE CHARLES LECOMTE-VERNET FRENCH 1821 - 1900 MINNEHAHA signed and dated C. Vernet-Lecomte 1871 lower right oil on canvas 112 by 77cm., 44 by 30¼in.

Hannah Cohen (her sale: Christie's, London, 19 March 1943, lot 94)
Sale: Christie's, London, 27 November 1953, lot 28
Sale: Christie's, London, 17 November 1995, lot 141

Minnehaha was the lover of Hiawatha in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's 1855 epic poem The Song of Hiawatha.

The Death of Minnehaha is part of Longfellow's poem, and was later arranged by Charles Crozat Converse into a popular song, as well as being made into a part of the English composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor's 1900 cantata trilogy The Song of Hiawatha.