Narcisse Virgile Diaz de la Peña (French, 1808-1876)
Marocaines en bord de rivière, village
signed 'N. Diaz' (lower right)
oil on canvas
47 x 65.4cm (18 1/2 x 25 3/4in).
Footnotes:
Provenance
Mary, Dowager Viscountess Harcourt (1874-1961), Stanton-Harcourt, Oxfordshire; her sale, Christie's, London, 17 November 1961, lot 30, as A Wooded River Landscape with Groups of Eastern Women Resting under Cork Oaks on the Bank.
With Roland, Browse, & Delbanco Gallery, London (acquired at the above sale).
Private collection, USA.

Exhibited
London, Roland, Browse & Delbanco Gallery, Gericault to Courbet: A New Look at the Period, 28 May-26 June 1965, no. 19, illustrated, as Moroccan Women Resting on a River Bank.
New York, Shickman Gallery, The Neglected 19th Century: An Exhibition of French Paintings, February 1970, no. 8, illustrated, as 'Moroccan Women by a Stream'.

Literature
P. Miquel and R. Miquel, Narcisse Díaz de la Peña (1807-1876), vol. II, Paris, 2006, p. 316, no. 1958, illustrated.
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