Jacques Laurent AGASSE (1767-1849)
The Difficult Word, ca. 1820
Oil on canvas.
Monogrammed upper left JLA.
61 x 51 cm
Provenance:
- English private collection
- 1921, Zurich, Gallery Bollag
- Private collection, France.
Exhibitions:
- 1936, Zurich, Kunsthaus
- 1955, Wadenswill, Kirchgemeindehaus
- 1988-1989, Geneva, Musée d'Art et d'Histoire, Jacques Laurent Agasse (1767-1849), no. 46 reproduced.
- 1989, London, Tate Gallery, Jacques Laurent Agasse (1767-1849), no. 46 reproduced.
Bibliography :
- One of the versions quoted in J. L. Agasse's MS Record Book
- D. Baud-Bovy, Peintres genevois 1766-1849 (2e série) Töpfer, Massot, Agasse, Genève, 1904, p. 121.
- C. F. Hardy, J. L. Agasse, his life, his work, Genève, 1905, pp. 126-127.