Rest Before Nightfall
1883
Painter, French, 1841 - 1901
Artwork overview
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Medium
oil on canvas
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 123.19 × 106.05 cm (48 1/2 × 41 3/4 in.)
framed: 160.66 × 144.15 × 13.97 cm (63 1/4 × 56 3/4 × 5 1/2 in.) -
Accession
2014.136.22
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
R. Austin Robertson; (his sale, American Art Association, New York, 7-8 April 1892, no. 146, as Halte de Voyageurs avant la Nuit); C.P. Huntington, New York.[1] James F. Sutton, New York, by 1893.[2] I. Montaignac, Paris;[3] purchased 1909 by William A. Clark [1839-1925]; bequest 1926 to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, as _Halte de Voyageurs Avant la Nuit: "Cazin's Angelus"; acquired 2014 by the National Gallery of Art.
[1] Annotated Robertson sales catalogue.
[2] Lent by Sutton to Special Exhibition of Works of J.-Ch. Cazin, New York, 1893, no. 50, as Halte de Voyageurs avant la Nuit.
[3] According to Dana H. Carroll, Catalogue of Objects of Fine Art and Other Properties at the Home of William Andrews Clark, 962 Fifth Avenue, Part I, Unpublished manuscript, n.d. (1925): 120-121, no. 44.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1893
Special Exhibition of Works of J.-Ch. Cazin_, American Art Galleries, New York, 1893, no. 50, as Halte de Voyageurs avant la Nuit.
1978
The William A. Clark Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 26 April-16 July 1978, unnumbered cat.
1983
La Vie Moderne: Nineteenth Century French Art from the Corcoran Gallery, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; Columbus Museum of Arts and Sciences, Georgia; Mary and Leigh Block Gallery, Northwestern University, Evanston; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Tampa Museum; Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha; Akron Art Museum, 1983-1985, no. 14, repro.
1994
Monet to Matisse: Landscape Painting in France, 1874-1914, National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh, 11 August-23 October 1994.
1995
Redefining Genre: French and American Painting 1850-1900, Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Memphis; Society of the Four Arts, Palm Beach; Santa Barbara Museum of Art; Meridian Internatioal Center, Washington, 1995-1996, no. 21.
2011
A Passion for Nature: Landscape Painting from 19th Century France, Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton, 15 October 2011 - 20 February 2012, no catalogue.
Inscriptions
lower left: J. C. Cazin 1883
Wikidata ID
Q46631192