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The Marsh
Constant Troyon · 1840
Provenance
Ownership history
- Mme. Lavaigneur collection, probably by 1840 [inscribed on the inside of original frame: Mr. Levaigneur 1840]; her estate sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, May 2, 1912, lot 19 (ill.); sold to Lemaréchal for 24,100 Francs [acc. to Gazette de Hôtel Drouot (May 4, 1912)]. Robert Hellebranth, Paris. Galerie Koller’s Sale, Zurich, November 11, 1981, lot 5047 (ill. 61); private collection; Sotheby’s Sale, London, June 12, 1996, lot 44 (ill.). Stair Sainty Matthiesen Inc., New York, 1996; sold to the Art Institute, 1996.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Chicago, Art Institute, Troyon’s “The Marsh,” May 9–August 2, 1998, no cat.
Literature
Published references
- Louis Soullié, Peintures, pastels, dessins de Constant Troyon, Librairies Spéciales des Catalogues de vente, Paris, 1900, p. 10. ?
- Gloria Groom, “The Marsh,” Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 30, 1, pp. 64-65 (color ills.).
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