Neal Auction Louisiana Purchase 2015

50 225. Alice Ravenel Huger Smith (American/South Carolina, 1876‑1958) , “Sunrise over the Field”, watercolor on paper, signed lower right, 12 in. x 7 in., framed. $2500/3500 Provenance: Private Collection, Savannah, GA. 226. Joseph Rusling Meeker (American/Louisiana, 1827‑1887) , “Southern Landscape with Moss‑Laden Oak Trees”, watercolor, monogrammed lower right, sight 5 1/2 in. x 7 1/2 in., giltwood frame. $3000/5000 Provenance: D. Benjamin Kleinpeter, Sr. Collection, Baton Rouge. 227. William Aiken Walker (American/South Carolina, 1838‑1921) , “Female Cotton Picker” and “Male Cotton Picker”, 2 oils on academy board, both signed lower left, one pencil‑inscribed en verso, each 8 1/4 in. x 4 in., framed alike. $7000/10000 Provenance: Property of an Uptown New Orleans Lady. Exh.: Tulane University President’s House, No. 2 Audubon Place, New Orleans, 2002‑2015. Note: To be included in John Fowler’s forthcoming catalogue raisonné on William Aiken Walker. 228. Henri De Lattre (French, 1801‑1867, act. America 1850‑1855) , “Prized Thoroughbreds and Cattle within an Extensive American Landscape”, 1854, oil on canvas, signed and dated lower right, 31 1/4 in. x 48 3/8 in., framed. $12000/18000 Provenance: A Southern Private Collection. Note: A French artist well-known for his paintings of genre scenes and animals, Henri De Lattre made two extended trips to North America. On his first trip from 1836 to 1840, De Lattre is known to have traveled to Canada and Philadelphia, where he briefly studied with Edward Troye (Swiss/Kentucky, 1808-1874), the talented painter of American thoroughbred horses. Returning to the United States in 1849, De Lattre established himself in Philadelphia as an equestrian artist and completed a series of sensitive depictions of horses. The artist provided illustrations of horses for several sporting publications, including Horses of America in 1857 and volume one of Wallace’s American Stud Book . From 1849 to 1854, De Lattre exhibited at the National Academy of Design in New York City, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia, the Maryland Historical Society in Baltimore and the Paris Salon in France. In the work offered here from 1854 (one year prior to the artist’s return to France), De Lattre locates his animals and two figures in the foreground, framing them within a quintessential American landscape of grassy hills under an expansive sky. The horses and cattle display the sophisticated understanding of equine anatomy and graceful movement that characterized the artist. Ref.: Reuter, F. Turner, Jr. Animal and Sporting Artists in America . Middleburg, VA: The National Sporting Library and Museum, 2009. 229. Attributed to Rembrandt Peale (American, 1778‑1860) , “Mary Davenport Kimball”, oil on canvas, inscribed labels en verso, 21 in. x 17 in., unframed. $5000/8000 Provenance: The collection of the sitter, Mary Campbell Davenport Kimball; to her daughter, Anna Harper Kimball Lex; to her daughter Frederica Lex Pearson Abbott; to her daughter Mary Frederica Pearson Monahan; to current owner. 230. John James Audubon (American, 1785‑1851) , “Baltimore Oriole”, Plate 12, hand‑colored engraving with aquatint, from The Birds of America , Havell edition, the elephant folio paper watermarked “J.Whatman/ Turkey Mill/1837”, sheet size 38 1/2 in. x 25 1/2 in., unframed. $5000/7000