FORMERLY ON LONG-TERM LOAN TO THE GEELONG ART GALLERY
EUGENE VON GUÉRARD
1811-1901
Breakneck Gorge, Hepburn Springs 1864
Estimate $1,000,000 – $1,200,000
PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF THE HONORABLE WILLIAM EDWARD STANBRIDGE, MLC, JP, VICTORIA
FORMERLY ON LONG-TERM LOAN TO THE GEELONG ART GALLERY
EUGENE VON GUÉRARD
1811-1901
Breakneck Gorge, Hepburn Springs 1864
oil on canvas
signed and dated 'Eug.v.Guerard / 1864' lower left
53.0 x 98.7 cm
frame: original, maker unknown, Melbourne
- Lot Sold $1,600,000 (Hammer Price)
- $1,952,000 (Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium)
Provenance
Eugene von Guérard, Melbourne
The Honourable William Edward Stanbridge, MLC, JP, Wombat Station, Victoria, acquired from the above in 1864
Private Collection, Melbourne, by descent from the above
Exhibited
Millar and Anderson's store, Daylesford, 3 September 1864
Eugene von Guérard: Nature Revealed, The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia at Federation Square, Melbourne, 16 April – 7 August 2011, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, 17 December 2011 – 4 March 2012, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 27 April – 15 July 2012, illustrated
On long-term loan to Geelong Gallery, Victoria, 1999-2017
Literature
The Daylesford Record, Victoria, 3 September 1864
The Argus, Melbourne, 3 September 1864, p. 5
'Items of News', The Mount Alexander Mail, Victoria, 13 September 1864, p. 2
Ruth Pullin, Eugene von Guérard: Nature Revealed, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 2011, pp. 199 (illustrated), 292
David Hansen, 'Eugene von Guerard: Nature Revealed', Art and Australia, Sydney, vol. 49, no. 4, Summer 2012, p. 674
David R. Marshall, 'Eugen von Guérard's Views of the Daylesford Region for William E. Stanbridge', The La Trobe Journal, State Library of Victoria, Melbourne, Nos. 93-94, September 2014, pp. 24, 32-34
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