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Pasture in Normandy
Constant Troyon · 1852
Provenance
Ownership history
- Laurent-Richard, by 1886; his sale Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, May 28–29, 1886, lot 67 for 20,000 francs, sold to Galerie Georges Petit [price and buyer according to an annotated sale catalogue in the Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie, The Hague]. Eugène Secrétan, by 1889; his sale Boussod, Valadon & Co., Paris and Charles Sedelmeyer, Paris, July 1, 1889, lot 79 for 31,500 francs to Durand-Ruel [price and buyer according to an annotated sale catalogue in the Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie, The Hague]; Durand-Ruel. Henry Field (died 1890), Chicago; his widow Mrs. Florence Lathrop Field; given to the Art Institute, 1894.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- San Francisco, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, Barbizon Revisited, September 27–November 4, 1962, cat. 105; travelled to Toledo Museum of Art, November 20–December 7, 1962; Cleveland Museum of Art, January 15–February 24, 1963; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, March 14–April 28, 1963.
- Washington, D.C., National Collection of Fine Arts, American Art in the Barbizon Mood, January 23–April 20, 1975, cat. 14.
- Toyko, The Seibu Museum, Millet, Corot and the School of Barbizon, March 15–April 14, 1980, cat. T61; travelled to Hyogo, Japan, The Museum of Modern Art, April 19–May 18, 1980; Sapporo, Japan, The Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, May 24–June 15, 1980; The Hiroshima Prefectural Museum, June 21–July 13, 1980; The Kitakyushu Municipal Museum, July 19–August 10, 1980.
Literature
Published references
- "Drift of the Dog Days,” The Collector 4, 16 (1893), p. 247.
- Art Institute of Chicago, Catalogue of Paintings, Sculpture, and Other Objects in the Museum (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1894), p. 57, no. 37.
- “The Henry Field Memorial Collection,” Art Amateur 31, 6 (1894), p. 115.
- “Art Institute of Chicago: II – Modern Paintings: The Henry Field Collection,” Art Amateur 32, 1 (1894), p. 19.
- Art Institute of Chicago, Annual Report of The Trustees for the Year Ending June 4, 1895 (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1895), p. 37, no. 37.
- Art Institute of Chicago, Catalogue of Objects in the Museum (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1895), p. 68, no. 37.
- Art Institute of Chicago, Catalogue of Objects in the Museum (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1896), p. 74, no. 37.
- Art Institute of Chicago, Catalogue of Objects in the Museum (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1898), p. 95, no. 37.
- “Chicago, ILL.: The Art Institute of Chicago,” in American Art Annual 1898 (London: Macmillan & Co., 1899), p. 140, no. 37.
- Louis Souillé, Peintures, pastels, aquarelles, dessins de Constant Troyon (Paris: Louis Souillé, 1900), p. 58.
- Art Institute of Chicago, General Catalogue of Objects in the Museum (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1901), p. 163, no. 137.
- Frederick Clifton Pierce, Field Genealogy, vol. 2 (Chicago: Hammond Press, 1901), p. 713, no. 37.
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