Returning from the Pasture: Evening
n.d.
Painter, Dutch, 1838 - 1888
Artwork overview
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Medium
oil on canvas
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 39.37 × 69.85 cm (15 1/2 × 27 1/2 in.)
framed: 70.17 × 101.28 × 10.16 cm (27 5/8 × 39 7/8 × 4 in.) -
Accession
2015.143.15
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Private collection, Scotland. (Boussod, Valadon et Cie, London);[1] sold 20 May 1896 to (M. Knoedler & Co.);[2] purchased 6 July 1896 by John W. Kauffman, St. Louis;[3] (his estate sale, American Art Association, New York, 3 February 1905, no. 42); William A. Clark [1839-1925], New York; bequest April 1926 to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art.
[1] The early provenance is according to Knoedler's records. See M. Knoedler & Co. Records, accession number 2012.M.54, Research Library, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles: Painting Stockbook 4, 4369-8799, 1883 April-1899 April, page 212, stock number 8075.
[2] Knoedler is listed as the prior owner in the 1905 Kauffman sales catalogue.
[3] The painting was sold as part of a pair. See M. Knoedler & Co. Records, accession number 2012.M.54, Research Library, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles: Sales Book 7, 1892 July-1900 October, page 153.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1978
The William A. Clark Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 26 April - 16 July 1978, unnumbered catalogue.
2011
A Passion for Nature: Landscape Painting from 19th Century France, Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton, 15 October 2011 - 20 February 2012, no catalogue.
Bibliography
1925
Carroll, Dana H. Catalogue of Objects of Fine Art and Other Properties at the Home of William Andrews Clark, 962 Fifth Avenue. Part I. Unpublished manuscript, n.d. (1925): 168, no. 159.
Inscriptions
lower right: A. Mauve
Wikidata ID
Q46627270