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Pond in the Woods
Narcisse Virgile Diaz de la Peña · 1862
Provenance
Ownership history
- Henry Reinhardt Galleries, Chicago [according to a label on the back of the painting]. Mrs. W. W. Kimball, Chicago; lent to the Art Institute, 1920 [see “Notes” 1920]; bequeathed to the Art Institute, 1922.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago, Loan Collection of Old and Modern Masters from Chicago Collections, July 25–October 13, 1935, cat. 1.
- New York, American Federation of Arts, The Road to Impressionism, October 1963–May 1964, cat. 19; travelled to Wichita Art Museum, October 6–27, 1893; Seattle, Charles and Emma Frye Art Museum, November 10–December 1, 1963; San Antonio, Witte Memorial Museum, December 15, 1963–January 5, 1964; Allentown Art Museum, January 19–February 9, 1964; Charlotte, North Carolina, Mint Museum of Art, February 23–March 15, 1964; Grand Rapids Art Gallery, March 19–April 19, 1964; Flint, Michigan, Dewaters Art Center, Flint Institute of Arts, May 2–24, 1964.
- Tokyo, The Seibu Museum of Art, The Impressionist Tradition: Masterpieces from the Art Institute of Chicago, October 18–December 17, 1985, cat. 6 traveled to Fukuoka, Fukuoka Art Museum, January 5–February 2, 1986 and Kyoto, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, March 4–April 13, 1986.
Literature
Published references
- “Notes,” Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 14, 5 (1920), p. 77.
- Art Institute of Chicago, Handbook of Sculpture, Architecture, Paintings and Drawings, pt. 2 (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1920), p. 59, cat. 752.
- Art Institute of Chicago, Handbook of Sculpture, Architecture, Paintings and Drawings, pt. 2 (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1922), p. 64, cat. 752.
- Art Institute of Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago Handbook of Sculpture, Architecture, Paintings and Drawings, pt. 2 (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1923), p. 64, cat. 752.
- Marguerite B. Williams, “Valuable Collection of Paintings Added to Chicago’s Art Treasures,” America Today – Fort Dearborn Magazine (Mid-Winter, 1924), p. 26.
- Art Institute of Chicago, A Guide to the Paintings in the Permanent Collection (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1925), p. 134, no. 752.
- Art Institute of Chicago, Kimball Gallery of Paintings: XVII to XIX Century (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1928), pp. 14–15.
- Art Institute of Chicago, A Guide to the Paintings in the Permanent Collection (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1932), p. 151.
- Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1961), p. 128.
- Richard R. Brettell, French Salon Artists 1800–1900 (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago and New York: H. N. Abrams, 1987), pp. 34 (ill.), 35, 37, 118.
- Edward J. Sullivan and Ruth Krueger Meyer, The Taft Museum: It’s History and Collections, vol. 1, pt. 2 (New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1995), p. 254 n. 1.
- Pierre and Rolande Miquel, Narcisse Diaz de la Peña (1807–1876), vol. 2 (Courbevoie: ACR Édition Internationale, 2006), p. 244, cat. 1545 (ill.).
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