Lot 31: LOUIS BÉROUD

PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF MRS. IRIS CANTOR
FRENCH
1852-1930
LES JOIES DE L'INONDATION (DANS LA GALERIE MÉDICIS)
signed Louis Béroud. and dated 1910 (lower left)
oil on canvas
100 by 77 7/8 in.
254 by 197.8 cm

Paris, Musée du Louvre, Copier Créer de Turner à Picasso: 300 oeuvres inspirées par les maîtres du Louvre, April 26-July 26, 1993, no. 17

Almanach surréaliste du demi-siecle (no. special de la Nef), nos. 63-64, March 1950, illustrated opp. p. 79
Cécile Ritzenthaler, L'ecole des Beaux-Arts du XIXe siècle, Les Pompiers, Paris, 1987, p. 32, illustrated
Didier Aaron Galleries, Catalogue, Paris, London and New York, 1992, no. 24
Peter C. Sutton, The Age of Rubens, exh. cat., Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Toledo Museum of Art, 1993-1994, p. 94, illustrated p. 93, fig 119
Hans Belting and Hellen Atkins, The Invisible Masterpiece, Chicago, 2001, illustrated p. 112

Collection R. J. Henault
Didier Aaron Galleries, Paris, London and New York
Acquired from the above in 1992