Xavier Mellery (1845-1921)
Baptism in Marken Island, 1879
Pastel, watercolor and charcoal on paper
20½ by 31½ inches (52 by 80 cm.)
Signed 'X MELLERY'
Provenance
Palais des Beaux-Arts- Servarts, Brussels, 11 May 1999, lot 416Collection Maurice Verbaet, Antwerp
With Eric Gillis Fine Art, Brussels
Private collection, New York
Literature
Jules Potvin, Xavier Mellery 1845-1921, Brussels 1925, p. 60Arnold Goffin, "Xavier Mellery", in: La Revue d'art. Nouvelle série de l' "Art flamand et hollandais", 1925 (Vol. XXV), pp. 161-184, p. 171
Vincent Vanhamme, Xavier Mellery: L'âme des choses, Amsterdam 2000, p. 21, p. 101, ill.