Curtis_O_Baer_2010

37. Auguste Anastasie French, 1820 – 1889

Study of a Tree with Exposed Roots 1861

Pen and ink on white paper 7 5 ⁄ 8

x 10 inches ( 19 . 4 x 25 . 4 cm)

Dated on verso Estate stamp lower center: Lugt 60

provenance Artist’s sale, Paris, March 3 – 8 , 1873 ; Shepherd Gallery, New York; Collection Curtis O. Baer exhibitions New York, Shepherd Gallery, The Non-Dissenters , May–June 1968 , cat. no. 116 ; New York, Shepherd Gallery, The Forest of Fontainebleau , April–June 1972 , cat. no. 82 .; Atlanta, 1985 , cat. no. 164 , p. 192 A student of Corot and Delaroche, Anastasi was a painter and lithographer primarily of landscapes. He found success among critics and his fellow artists, as well as benefiting from several State commissions for national museums.