(Bordeaux 1807–1876 Menton)

La Bas d'Apremont, Deux Bûcheronnes Près de Deux Mares.

Oil on canvas.

Signed lower left: N. Diaz.

45.7 × 65.5cm.

Provenance:
- Sale Christie's, London, 26.3.1982, Lot 29 (label verso).
- Sale Christie's, New York, 24.5.1985, Lot 156.
- Collection of Murauchi Furniture Co. Ltd., Tokyo.
- Sale Christie's, New York, 28.4.2015, Lot 1 (label verso).
- Sale Christie's, 1.12.2022, Lot 127 (label verso).
- European collection.

Literature:
P. et R. Miquel: Diaz de la Peña. Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint, Volume II, Paris, 2006, p. 202, no. 1308, ill.

Exhibited:
- London, Barbizon School, Mai 1957, Hazlitt Gallery, no. 16.
- Morioka, Millet et ses contemporains à Barbizon [from Murauchi Art Museum collection], 2. - 20.8.1989, Iwate Prefecture Hall, no. 52, as 'Paysage à Barbizon.' (label verso).
- Kobe, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, Découverte de Barbizon, 11.11.–23.12.1995, no. 23.
- Shizuoka, Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art, 5.1.–12.2.1996, no. 23.
- Kitakyushu, Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art, 22.2.–22.3.1996, no. 23.