Ferntree Gully in the Dandenong Ranges 1857

EUGENE VON GUÉRARD (1811-1901)

Ferntree Gully in the Dandenong Ranges 1857

oil on canvas on panel
19.0 x 24.0 cm
signed lower left: E.v. Guérard

Provenance:
Private collection, Queensland

Exhibited:
The First Exhibition of the Society of Fine Arts, Melbourne, 1857, cat.148 as 'Ferntree Gulley' [sic], no price given
The larger version of this painting, now in the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, was shown in the same exhibition, as 'Ferntree Gulley [sic]on the Dandenong Ranges, cat.144, and priced at £210.
Masterpiece Fine Art, Hobart (label attached verso)
Lauraine Diggins Fine Art, Melbourne (label attached verso)
Philip Bacon Galleries, Brisbane (label attached verso)

Reference:
The Age, Melbourne, 22 May 1857, p.5
Bruce, C., Comstock, E., & McDonald, F., Eugene von Guérard: A German Romantic in the Antipodes, Alister Taylor Publishers, Martinborough, New Zealand, 1982, p.200 cat.36
Bonyhady, T., Australian Colonial Paintings in the Australian National Gallery, Australian National Gallery, Canberra, 1986, p.170
Ritchie, R., Seeing the Rainforests in 19th Century Australia, Rainforest Publishing, Sydney, 1989, p.67 (illus.)

Related Works:
Ferntree Gully in the Dandenong Ranges 1857, oil on canvas, 92.0 x 130.0 cm, collection of the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra.
Ferntree orDobson's Gulley, Dandenong Ranges , 1858, pen and ink and wash on paper, 37.7 x 54.9 cm, collection of the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Dobson's Gulley, Dandenong Ranges 8-27 May 1859, pen and ink and wash on paper, 35.9 x 59.7 cm, Dixson Galleries, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney
Ferntree Gulley, Dandenong Ranges, colour lithograph, 32.8 x 51.5 cm, pl.XIII in Eugene von Guérard's Australian Landscapes: a Series of 24 Tinted Lithographs illustrative of the most striking and picturesque features of the Landscape Scenery of Victoria, New South Wales, South Australia and Tasmania, Drawn from Nature Lithographed by the Artist with Letter Press Descriptions of each View, Hamel & Ferguson, Melbourne [1866-67]

Estimate: $80000 - 100000

Result Hammer: $70000