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Alexandre Calame - Alexandre Calame and Eugène Verboeckhoven ”Landscape with Small Chapel and Animals”. 1840.. Alexandre Calame 1810 Arabie – 1864 Menton Eugène Joseph Verboeckhoven 1798 Warneton – 1881 Schaerbeek Oil on paper, laid down on canvas. Unsigned. Verso with the wax seal of the Vente Calame and numbered paper label ”380”. In a gold-coloured Neo-Baroque frame. Verso on the upper frame bar inscribed in black pen ”213” and ”K.”, on the right frame bar inscribed ”Adam”. Not in the Anker catalogue raisonné; however, compare the almost identical format paintings of the same motif without the shepherd with his sheep: ”Small Chapel by the Wayside in the Forest”, 1840, 44 x 39.5 cm, oil on cardboard, WVZ Anker 143, and ”Small Chapel by the Wayside in the Forest”, 1840, 45.2 x 39.3 cm, oil on cardboard, WVZ Anker 144. Provenance: Private collection Saxony; Koller Auctions 2006; Amsterdam ownership; Swiss art trade; Auction of the estate of Alexandre Calame (Vente Calame), Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 13.-22.3.1865, No. 380; Estate of Alexandre Calame. Formerly with an expert opinion by Valentina Anker from 04.11.2005. According to the opinion, the flock and shepherd are by the hand of Eugene Verboeckhoven, who frequently collaborated with Alexandre Calame around 1840. Rebate areas with continuous, browned paper lining, covering the stretcher edge. Paint layer with larger, slightly colour-deviating retouches, probably on former tears in the paper upper left and upper right as well as on the lower image edge. Further small retouches distributed over the image surface. The seal verso with material loss in the right area. Frame overgilded and slightly rubbed, mitre joint open. Dimensions: 42.5 x 37 cm, Frame 58.5 x 50.5 cm. Alexandre Calame 1810 Arabie – 1864 Menton Initially a bank clerk. From 1829, trained by Francois Diday. 1838 study trip to Düsseldorf, 1842 to Paris, 1844 to Rome. 1847 associate member of the Académie royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-Arts de Belgique. 1850–51 member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.