Painting of sailboats, Jean-Maxime Claude (French 19c).9" x 6" in a frame 11" x 8".//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////(From the Oxford Index online):"French, 19th century, male.Active also active in England.Born 24 June 1823 or or; died 1904.Painter, watercolourist, draughtsman. Genre scenes, animals, landscapes, seascapes, still-lifes.Jean Maxime Claude exhibited at the Paris Salon from 1861, and was awarded a jury medal in 1866, 1869 and 1872. He lived in Paris for a time before settling in England. He was a Chevalier of the Légion d'Honneur./////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////Provenance:Estate of Krzystof Postawa, Frederick Mont by descent, Jackson Heights(Queens)New York.Descended directly and kept in the family that descended from Frederick Mont.Frederick Mont was born in Vienna, Austria on 3/26/1894. He died on 8/20/1994 in N.Y.C.He was survived by his wife Anna Mont nee Suchestow. He had no children.Anna Mont died on 7/28/2010 in N.Y.C. She was survived by her sister Lottie Brandel.Lottie Brandel died on 7/20/11 in Jackson Heights, NY and was survived by her husband, Krzysztof Postawa.Krzysztof Postawa died on 7/11/2018 in Jackson Heights, NY.The lawyer for the Postawa Estate consigned the painting to David Killen Gallery for auction.(From the Frick Museum online archives):”Frederick Mont, aka A. F. (Adolf Fritz) Mondschein or Frederick Mondschein, was a New York dealer of Old Master paintings. Before immigrating to New York in the 1930s, Mont, owned and directed Galerie Sanct Lucas (Yeide, Nancy H. The AAM Guide to Provenance Research, AAM, Washington DC., 2001).Frederick Mont sold mostly European old masters mostly to U.S. museums; he was chosen as sole agent by the Prince of Liechtenstein for the sale of masterpieces from his collection; favored his relationships with American dealer Victor Spark (1898-1991) and the Newhouse Galleries.Mont was married at least three times; his first wife, Betty (née Berta Austerlitz, 1897) Mont, was also involved in the art business and Frederick was a partner in her father’s, Wilhelm Austerlitz [d. 1940], London art business; his second wife, Eva (née Seiler, 1919–1953), died on vacation with her husband in Naples, Italy; his third wife, Anna S. (1914-2010), bequest some works of art to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2010 in memory of Frederick Mont, other works from her bequest entered the collection in 2012.”

Good condition overall, signed lower left