Lot 171: FERDINAND GUELDRY

FERDINAND GUELDRY FRENCH 1858 - 1945 SCENE DE CANOTAGE AU PONT DE BRY signed and dated F.Gueldry 1900 lower left oil on canvas 50.3 by 60.2cm., 19¾ by 23¾in.

Michel Riousset, Les environs de la Marne et leurs peintres, Le Mée-sur-Seine, 1986, p. 147, illustrated

Edouard Sevin, Nogent-sur-Marne (a gift from the artist in the 1910s. Sevin (1867-1956) was president of the Fédération française d'Aviron, Secretary of the Comité des régates internationales de Paris, and president of the Club nautique de Paris in 1919-1920. He lived in Nogent-sur-Marne and was a close friend of Gueldry); thence by descent to the present owner

The present view is of the Marne River near the Bry-sur-Marne bridge, close to where Gueldry's studio was located. To the left is the bank of Perreux-sur-Marne, with two houses still in existence; on the right, the bank of Bry-sur-Marne.