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Auguste-Paul-Charles Anastasi (1820-1889)

Spanish Chestnut Tree,  May 1841

Whiteley (2000) 938

Graphite with pen and dark brown ink and grey wash, heightened with white bodycolour, on fine-textured, grey-brown paper.  Sheet: 257 x 210 mm

Inscribed in dark brown ink at lower right: La Selle mai 1841

Collector's Mark: Anastasi (L. 60) lower right

Provenance: Anastasi sale, 3 March 1873

The Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. Purchased, 1964.; 

WA1964.61.1