Jean-Baptiste OLIVE (Marseille, 1848 - 1936) The Russian fleet in Villefranche Oil on canvas Signed 'JB. Olive' lower right 46.5 x 65.0 cm Provenance: Anonymous sale; Versailles, Me Blache, 8 June 1981, no. 73; Anonymous sale; Paris, Hôtel Drouot, S.7, Ader, Picard Tajan, 4 July 1989, n° 200 ; Collection Jacques et Michèle Ginepro (collection mark affixed several times on verso); Then by descent; Private collection, Monaco Bibliography: Franck Baille and Magali Raynaud, Jean-Baptiste Olive. Prisme de Lumière, Marseille, 2008, p. 225, no. 850, repr. Jean-Baptiste OLIVE (Marseille, 1848 - 1936) 46.5 x 65.0 cm