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GUDIN, JEAN ANTOINE THEODORE 1802 Paris - 1880 Boulogne-sur-Seine Village in the Savoyer Alps. Monogrammed lower right: H.G. (alloyed). Oil on paper. Laid down on wood. 37 x 62,5 cm. Framed. Verso: Stamp on the canvas with the numbering: "T. Gudin / 158", faintly readable inscription "Gudin 1825" as well as stamp from the Galerie Alfred Flechtheim, Düsseldorf with the number D 10924 and 198. Provenance: - Galerie Alfred Flechtheim, Düsseldorf; - Private collection, Berlin. The provenance of the painting is very interesting; Alfred Flechtheim is one of its previous owners. Flechtheim became co-founder and treasurer of the Düsseldorf special federal museum in 1909. A substantial retrospective to this museum's Cologne exhibition of 1912 is currently being held in the Wallraf-Richarts museum. We suspect he exhibited this painting by Gudin in his Düsseldorf gallery, as it is not listed in the auction catalogues of Cassirer and Helbing of 1917. It is almost impossible to research Gudin's travels, but sketches of the region Antibes-Rocher have recently been turning up on the art market. It is probable that he travelled in the area around Cannes/Nice towards Switzerland and the Savoy alps. A view of the Col de l'is Échelle can currently be found in the Musée des beaux-arts in Chambery.