Lot 57: Exceptional French Japonisme Oil on Panel Painting by Felix Armand Heullant

An exceptional French Japonisme oil on board painting by Felix Armand Heullant (French, born 1834) ""Char Nuptial Japon"" / Japanese Ceremony signed 'A. Heullant' (lower left) Panel size: 26 1/2 x 39 1/2in (67.5 x 100cm) Provenance: Sale, Sotheby's, Olympia, 11 December 2003, lot 230; with Kurt E. Schon, Ltd, New Orleans. Exhibited: Paris, Salon, 1882, no. 1342. Odessa, Texas, Ellen Noel Museum of Art, Where Will You Travel Next?-Destinations in Paintings, November 2012-February 2013; Albany, New York, Albany Museum of Art, January-April 2014; Allentown, Pennsylvania, Allentown Museum of the Lehigh Valley, June-September 2014; Scranton, Pennsylvania, Everhart Museum of Natural History, Science & Art, February-June 2015; Lakeland, Florida, Polk Museum of Art, July-December 2015. Literature: Ђ_М_mile Bellier and Louis Auvray, Dictionnaire geЂјеЗneЂјеЗral des artistes de l'eЂјеЗcole francЂјМ_aise depuis l'origine des arts du dessin jusqu'a` nos jours, New York & London, 1979, Vol. II, p. 237; John D. Champlin, Jr., Cyclopedia of Painters and Paintings, New York, 1885, Vol. II, p. 252; Michel Aubert, L'Art officiel a` la fin du XIXe sie`cle : dessins et peintures, Cha^teau de Blois, 1976, p. 38. James Allen Scott, Where Will You Travel Next? Destinations in Paintings, 2011, p. 86, illustrated.

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