Auction: Sale #2366 - 2366Location: BostonDate / Time: May 18, 2007 4:00PM
Description:
José Villegas y Cordero (Spanish, 1844-1921)
Along the Canal
Signed "Villegas" l.l., a label from Giuseppe Biasutti affixed to the reverse.
Oil on panel, 13 x 19 1/2 in. (33.0 x 49.5 cm),in a frame attributed to Kahlil George Gibran (American, b. 1922).
Condition: Minor retouch.
Provenance: A private New England collection.
N.B. Cordero was born in Seville, where he began his studies, and worked in both Spain and Italy. He began painting Venetian views starting around 1877.
Estimate $20,000-30,000