The Breton Wedding

1937

Georges Rouault

Artist, French, 1871 - 1958

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On View

East Building Ground Level, Gallery 103-D

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    oil on canvas

  • Credit Line

    Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon

  • Dimensions

    overall: 71.1 x 123 cm (28 x 48 7/16 in.)
    framed: 97.8 x 148.3 x 6.9 cm (38 1/2 x 58 3/8 x 2 11/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1985.64.37

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Ambroise Vollard [1867-1939], Paris). (sale, Sotheby's, London, 30 March 1966, no. 60); purchased by (P. & D. Colnaghi, London and New York) for Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, Upperville, Virginia; gift 1985 to NGA.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1966

  • Rouault, Edinburgh International Festival, Arts Council of Great Britain, 1966, no. 72, repro.

1989

  • Loan for display with permanent collection, Mint Museum, Carlotte, North Carolina, 1989-1992.

1996

  • Loan for display with permanent collection, Baum Gallery of Fine Art, University of Central Arkansas, Conway, 1996-1997.

2004

  • Extended loan for use by Secretary Alphonso Jackson, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Washington, D.C., 2004-2008.

2008

  • Extended loan for use by Secretary Steve Preston, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Washington, D.C., 2008.

Inscriptions

lower right: GRouault

Wikidata ID

Q20193082

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