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Description: Venezia Bella, Regina del Mare signed 'Aman Jean.' (lower left) oil on canvas 471/2 x 613/4 in. (120.5 x 157 cm.) Painted in 1892 PROVENANCE Dr. Georg Hirth, 1892; his sale, Galerie Hugo Helbing, Munich, 9 July 1918, lot 459. Appel Collection (acquired at the above sale) and thence by descent. Anon. sale, Christie's, Amsterdam, 28 October 1992, lot 241. LITERATURE A. Tausserat-Radel, "La Peinture au Salon du Champs de Mars", L'artiste, vol. III, 1892, p. 428. H. Berenger, "Les artistes de l'ƒme, Edmond Aman-Jean", L'Art de la Vie, November 1893, pp. 33-7. A. Segard, Peintures d'aujourd'hui: les d‚corateurs, Paris, 1914, vol. II, p. 103. L. L. Lokensgard, Edmond Aman-Jean (1858-1936), unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, University of Kansas, 1983, pp. 37-8, 97, (note 8) and pp. 162, 315, no. 19 (illustrated fig.14), (Erroneously cites execution and Salon date as 1893). P.-G. Persin, Aman-Jean, peintre de la femme, Paris, 1993, pp. 31 and 39, fig. 43 (illustrated p. 39).