STANISLAS LÉPINE (Caen 1835–1892 Paris) Caen. Le bassin Saint-Pierre et l'abbaye aux Dames. Circa 1875–80. Oil on panel. Signed lower right: S. Lépine. 15.3 × 23.7 cm. Provenance: - With Galerie Tempelaere, Paris (with the stamp on the reverse). - Marbeau collection, Paris. - Auction Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 13.6.1900, lot 32. - With Galerie M. Kruck. - Private collection, Switzerland. - Auction Koller, Zurich, 27.3.2009, lot 3307. - Private collection, Switzerland. Exhibited: Paris 1968, Exposition Lépine, Galerie Schmit, 15.5.–15.6.1968, no. 70, as "Caen. Un coin de port" (with the label on the reverse). Literature: Robert and Manuel Schmit: Stanislas Lépine, 1835–1892. Catalogue Raisonné de l'oeuvre peint, Paris 1993, p. 249, no. 616 (with ill.).