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Lot description
Oil/wood. 22,5 x 34 cm. Lower right signed Alfred Guillou, on the reverse label of Graves gallery and Christie's block stamp. Inconspicuous rubbing. - Provenance: Collection of the painter Alfred East (1849-1913); to his widow; Graves Gallery, Birmingham; Christie's; most recently private collection, Schleswig-Holstein - French painter. G. learned painting in the studios of Alexandre Cabanel and William Bouguereau and exhibited for the first time at the Paris Salon in 1867. In 1893, he became a member of the Legion of Honor. His motifs are mainly derived from his Breton homeland. Mus.: Paris (Mus. Luxembourg), Tours, Concarneau, Minneapolis a. others. Lit.: Thieme-Becker, Vollmer, Bénézit.