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River Boat
Charles François Daubigny · c. 1860
Provenance
Ownership history
- In the possession of the artist, Charles François Daubigny (died 1878); sold, his estate sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, May 6, 1878, lot 172, as Remorqueur près du Havre. Robert Churchill Vose and Nathaniel Morton Vose, Boston, by 1917; sold, American Art Galleries, New York, April 4, 1917, lot 91, as French Tug-Boat, for $280 to Francis Ralston Welsh, Devon, Penn. [American Art Association record book for 1917]; sold, Parke-Bernet, New York, May 26, 1938, lot 500 to Hannah D. Rabinowitz [according to Sotheby's fax dated September 16, 2003, in curatorial file]. E. and A. Silberman Galleries, New York; sold, Parke-Bernet, New York, March 1, 1945, lot 126, to Fine Arts Associates [according to Sotheby's fax cited above]. E. and A. Silberman Galleries, New York, by October 1945 [see New York 1945 exh. cat.]. John J. Ireland (died 1968), Chicago; bequeathed to the Art Institute, 1968.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- New York, Wildenstein and Company, Camille Pissarro: His Place in Art, October 24–November 24, 1945, cat. 55.
- Cincinnati, Ohio, Taft Museum of Art, Daubigny, Monet, Van Gogh: Impressions of Landscapes, Feb. 19-May 29, 2016, fig. 58; traveled to the Edinburgh, United Kingdom, Scottish National Gallery, June 25-October 2, 2016, and Amsterdam, Van Gogh Museum, Oct. 21, 2016-Jan. 29, 2017.
Literature
Published references
- John Rewald, "Pissarro and His Circle," Art News 44 (October 15–31, 1945), pp. 17–18 (ill.).
- John Rewald, The History of Impressionism (New York, 1946), p. 91 (ill.).
- Art Institute of Chicago, Annual Report 1967–68 (Chicago, 1968), p. 18.
- Art Institute of Chicago, Supplement to Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (unpublished typescript, 1971), p. 24.
- Robert Hellebranth, Charles-François Daubigny, 1817–1878 (Morges, Switzerland, 1976), p. 224, no. 675.
- Clarke, Michael. 2015. "Tales of the Riverbank: Daubigny's River Scenes," In Daubigny, Monet, Van Gogh: Impressions of Landscape, pp. 65-78 (p. 69, fig. 58 ill.), Trustees of the National Galleries of Scotland <editions per 3 exhibition venues>
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