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A flitting gleam before the storm
(c. 1880)
Medium
oil on canvas
Measurements
80.5 × 121.0 cm
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased, 1884
Gallery location
Not on display
Artwork Details
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
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of Digitisation Champion Dame Carol Colburn-Grigor CBE through Metal Manufactures Limited
Subjects (general)
Landscapes Marines and Seascapes
Subjects (specific)
boats clouds dunes shores (landforms) sky storms weather
Provenance
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.