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The Road to Market
Constant Troyon · 1858–59
Provenance
Ownership history
- E. Gaillard, Paris, by 1867; his sale for 7,000 francs [sale according to Narischkine sale catalogue, cited below; price according to Souillé 1900]. B. Narischkine, Paris, by 1883; his sale, Galerie George Petit, April 5, 1883, lot 83 as La Route du marché for 42,500 francs to Arnold & Tripp [price and buyer according to an annotated copy of the sale catalogue in the Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie, The Hague]; Arnold & Tripp, Paris. 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
- Chicago, World’s Columbian Exposition, Fine Arts: Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, Decoration, 1893, cat. 2983.
Literature
Published references
- “Troyon,” L’Art: Revue bi-mensuelle illustrée, vol. 1 (1889), pl. XLVI.
- “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. 36.
- “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. 36.
- Art Institute of Chicago, Catalogue of Objects in the Museum (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1895), p. 67–8, no. 36.
- Art Institute of Chicago, Catalogue of Objects in the Museum (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1896), p. 74, no. 36.
- Art Institute of Chicago, Catalogue of Objects in the Museum (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1898), p. 94, no. 36 (ill.).
- William M. R. French, “The Permanent Collections in the Museum of the Art Institute of Chicago: I. Introduction,” Brush and Pencil 1, 4 (1898), pp. 81, 86 (ill.); reprinted, Charles Francis Browne, Brush and Pencil: A Magazine of Art, September 1897–March 1898, vol. 1 (Chicago: Phillips & Company, 1898), p. vi.
- Charles Francis Browne, “The Permanent Collections in the Museum of the Art Institute of Chicago: IV. The Henry Field Memorial Collection,” Brush and Pencil 2, 1 (1898), p. 5, no. 36 (ill.).
- “Chicago, ILL.: The Art Institute of Chicago,” in American Art Annual 1898 (London: Macmillan & Co., 1899), p. 140, no. 36.
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