The Cliff (La Falaise)

1874

Jules Breton

Artist, French, 1827 - 1906

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West Building Main Floor, Gallery 93


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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

The artist; (Goupil & cie, Paris, 14 March, 1874, no. 8816).[1] Serge von Derwies [1863-1943], Nice, by 1904;[2] (his sale: Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 15 November 1906, no. 5 as L'attente). (Perhaps Georges Petit, Paris, acquired at the above sale). (Sale Sotheby’s, Parke, Bernet, New York, 16 January 1975, no. 176). (Sale, Sotheby’s, Parke, Bernet, New York, 4 May 1979, no. 249); The Forbes Magazine collection, New York; (their sale, Sotheby’s, New York, 13 October 1993, no. 22); ptrivate collection, Europe; Eric Weider, Westlake, TX; gift 2024 to NGA.
[1] Provenance courtesy of the Jules Breton online catalogue raisonné project.
[2] The painting was reproduced in Galerie Serge von Derwies (Saint Petersburg, 1904), no. 20, as "L'Attente". For information on the Von Derwies collection, begun by Serge’s father Paul von Derwies [1826-1881], see Dominique Laredo, “De Nice à Saint-Pétersbourg: la Galerie Serge Von Derwies : le Catalogue inédit de la collection Von Derwies (1904),” Revue Russe 37, 2011: 143-157. (DOI: https://doi.org/10.3406/russe.2011.2473).

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Exhibition History

1874

  • Salon of 1874, Paris, no. 257.

1983

  • Jules Breton and the French Rural Tradition, 1983, no. 38, repro.


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