Fête Champêtre

18th or 19th century

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    oil on canvas

  • Credit Line

    Timken Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall: 38.1 x 47 cm (15 x 18 1/2 in.)

  • Accession

    1960.6.14

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Baron de Beurnonville, Paris.[1] Eugene Fischhof, Paris; (his sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 14 June 1913, no. 39). (Dr. Curt Benedict and Co., Berlin), possibly by 1927;[2] William R. Timken [1866-1949], New York; by inheritance to his widow, Lillian Guyer Timken [1881-1959], New York; bequest 1960 to NGA.
[1] This information is in the 1914 Fischhof sale catalogue. It is not certain which of the barons de Beurnonville owned the painting; there were numerous sales by the family in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
[2] The Benedict & Co. prospectus for the painting includes an expertise by W. Bode dated October 1927. In 1935 the Berlin branches of the Margraf firm (van Diemen, Dr. Benedict & Co., Dr. Otto Burchard & Co.; Altkunst Antiquitäten) were liquidated by order of the Nazis, with sales organized by Graupe on 25 January and 26 April, and a further sale on 12 October 1937. This picture did not figure in any of the liquidation sales.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1967

  • Loan for display with permanent collection, Norfolk Museum of Arts and Sciences (now Chrysler Museum), Virginia, 1967-1972.

1979

  • Loan for display with permanent collection, Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, Florida, 1979-1981.

Bibliography

1965

  • Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 100, as by Pater.

1968

  • National Gallery of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. Washington, 1968: 87, repro., as Pater

1975

  • European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 262, repro.

1985

  • European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 301, repro.

2009

  • Conisbee, Philip, et al. French Paintings of the Fifteenth through the Eighteenth Century. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 2009: no. 81, 371-373, color repro.

Inscriptions

On lining fabric: stamped in black ink, "DOUANE CENTRAL". On stretcher: stamped: "DOUANE CENTRAL," with an illegible date in the center of the circular stamp. On stretcher: small piece of paper, "No. 32"; small adhesive label, "No. 10, Pater".

Wikidata ID

Q20177701

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