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CORNELIUS KRIEGHOFFL'HABITANToil on boardsigned 10.5 ins x 7 ins; 26.7 cms x 17.8 cms Provenance:Private Collection, TorontoLiterature:Dennis Reid, Krieghoff, Images of Canada, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, 1999, page 82.Note:Krieghoff painted many scenes of habitant life and among his great cast of stock characters were tradesmen or seasonal labours. In this lot we see a woodcutter, possibly pausing to check the sharpness of his axe. The format of this work is Krieghoff's response to a tariff that had been imposed on prints. Cleverly, he produced smaller paintings to appeal to "buyers of modest means..."