(Bordeaux 1807 - 1876 Menton)

Children playing with dogs.

Oil on canvas.

Signed lower left: n. Diaz.

24.3 x 35 cm.

Provenance:
- Collection Collot (friend of Diaz and important collector), acquired from the artist.
- Auction Paris 29.5.1852, No. 23, Collection Collot.
- Galerie Desforges, Paris.
- Collection of Admiral Benjamin Jaurès.
- Collection of Mme Masson, Paris.
- European private collection.
- Koller, Zürich, 28.3.2014, Lot 3224.
- Swiss private collection.

Literature:
Miquel, Pierre & Rolande: Narcisse Diaz de la Peña (1897–1876), Catalogue Raisonné de l'Oeuvre peint, Paris 2006, vol. II, No. 2300, p. 377, (painted on canvas, not on panel as erroneously stated).