Lot 1
'Album No. 1': A collection of nineteen sketches, mostly Australian and European landscapes
Variously pencil (most) and wash, some mounted on (now loose) album leaves
All unsigned
Three respectively inscribed with identifications of their subjects and dated: '1868 Nr Windsor Station', 'South Yarra 1866', and 'Lillydale 1871'
Three drawn on the reverse of printed membership cards of various Swiss organisations issued to Buvelot and his companion (and later wife), Caroline-Julie Béguin
Accompanied by a now-vacant circa 1880 album in which, apparently, at least some of the drawings were formerly mounted, inscribed on its first leaf 'Album No. 1', the final leaves of which are inscribed with a near-contemporary laudatory account of Buvelot's life and work; together with two 1880s portrait photographs of Buvelot, one a carte de visite by his own studio
The largest 16.5 x 26.5cm (the album 22 x 29.5cm)
Estimate $1,500 - $2,000
The collection of the artist
Mme Julie Buvelot (née Caroline-Julie Béguin, 1825–1902), Melbourne
Beauchamp Brothers, The Buvelot Collection of Pictures, Melbourne, 10 June 1902, lot 268 ('album of sketches' ['by the late Louis Buvelot'])
Marie-Louise Bernadou (1876–1968, companion of Mme Buvelot), purchased from the above
Thence by descent
Sotheby's, Fine Australian and International Paintings, Melbourne, 26 November 2002, lot 94, purchased by Terence Lane (the composition of the collection possibly since altered)
The Terence Lane Collection Part II
AUCTION
Sale: IT149
10:00am - 4 August 2026
Timed Online Auction (Melbourne)
VIEWING
Friday 31 July - Saturday 1 August, 11am - 5pm
Monday 3 August by appointment
2 Oxley Road, Hawthorn VIC
CONTACT
Chiara Curcio
decorativearts@leonardjoel.com.au
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