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A flitting gleam before the storm
(c. 1880)
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Measurements
- 80.5 × 121.0 cm
- Place/s of Execution
- Munich, Bavaria, Germany
- Inscription
- inscribed in black paint l.r.: K. Heffner / München
- Accession Number
- p.310.4-1
- Department
- International Painting
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased, 1884
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- Not on display
- Subjects (general)
- Landscapes Marines and Seascapes
- Subjects (specific)
- boats clouds dunes shores (landforms) sky storms weather
- Provenance
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With French Gallery (dealer), London, 1884; brought, by Henry Wallis, proprietor of the French Gallery, to Melbourne for exhibition, 1884[1]; from where purchased for the NGV, 1884.
[1] See ‘Art Notes’, in The Argus, Melbourne, Friday 15 August 1884, p. 7, Accessed: http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article6055400
Exhibited: Henry Wallis’s rooms, Imperial chambers, Bank Place, Melbourne 1884.
