Cattle in the Auvergne
1867
Artist, French, 1822 - 1899
Artwork overview
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Medium
black and white chalk with stumping and touches of pastel on brown wove paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 25.91 × 20.4 cm (10 3/16 × 8 1/16 in.)
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Accession
2017.40.1
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Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(Galerie Hainemann, Munich). W. Clark Symington, Newark, NJ [acquired in Switzerland in 1925]; gift to Newark Museum, 1952 (inv. 52.42); (sale, Christie's New York, 24 January 2017, no. 114); purchased (via Nicholas Schwed, Paris) by NGA, 2017.
Associated Names
Inscriptions
lower left in black chalk: Rosa Bonheur 67
Wikidata ID
Q64629739