ALEXANDRE GABRIEL DECAMPS. 1803-1860

101 STREET SCENE. 1849

Oil on canvas. 45 X 58 cm. Inv. No 2796 Signed and dated lower center: Decamps 49 In the collection of Count Kushelev-Bezborodko the picture was listed as Street Scene, or Italian Family). The title Oriental Street, mentioned in the 1957 and 1961 catalogues of The Pushkin Museum, is erroneous, as the sitting woman is dressed in Italian costume; this proves that the original title was correct. Provenance: until 1862 The N. Kushelev-Bezborodko Collection, St Petersburg; 1862—1922 The Academy of Arts Museum, St Petersburg — Petrograd; 1922— 33 The Hermitage, Petrograd — Leningrad; since 1933 The Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow Bibliography: Кат. ГМИИ 1948, p. 26; Кат. ГМИИ 1957, p. 48; Кат. ГМИИ 1961, p. 68; Картинная галерея Императорской Академии художеств. Картинная галерея графа Н. А. Кушелева-Безбородко, St Petersburg, 1886, No 180; М. Далькевич, Галерея графа Н. А. Кушелева-Безбородко, Императорская Академия художеств, St Petersburg, s.a. [late 1880s], 1, ill. [entitled Street Scene, or Italian Family); 4, p. 29; Reau 1929, No 61; Прокофьев 1962, ill. 97 (entitled An Oriental Street)

101 STREET SCENE. 1849

102 HUNTING SCENE IN THE MOUNTAINS. 1843

Oil on canvas. 39 X 31 cm. Inv. No 854 Signed and dated lower right: Decamps 1843 Provenance: 1863 Sale of the Demidov Collection, Paris (entitled Hunting Scene in the Pyrenees); 1869 Sale of the Collection of Marquis du Lau, Paris (entitled Sniping); until 1892 The S. Tretyakov Collection, Moscow; 1892—1925 The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow; since 1925 The Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow

Exhibitions: 1939 Moscow, Cat., p. 36; 1955 Moscow, Cat., p. 30; 1956 Leningrad, Cat., p. 20; 1972 Prague, Cat. 11

Bibliography: Кат. ГМИИ 1948, p. 26; Кат. ГМИИ 1957, p. 48; Кат. ГМИИ 1961, p. 68; A. Moreau, Decamps et son aeuvre, Paris, 1869, p. 179 (entitled Hunting Scene in the Pyrenees); Опись галереи Третьяковых 1894, No 68; Кат. галереи Третьяковых 1917, No 3882; Reau 1929, No 492

102 HUNTING SCENE IN THE MOUNTAINS. 1843