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André Giroux

Forest Interior with a Painter, Civita Castellana, 1825/1830

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Medium

oil on paper

Dimensions

overall: 29 x 44 cm (11 7/16 x 17 5/16 in.)

framed: 42.2 x 59.4 x 5.4 cm (16 5/8 x 23 3/8 x 2 1/8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Mrs. John Jay Ide in memory of Mr. and Mrs. William Henry Donner

Accession Number

1994.52.3

Artists / Makers

André Giroux (painter) French, 1801 - 1879

Image Use

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Inscription

reverse: Civita Castellana

Provenance

Art market, Paris;[1] (Galerie J. Fischer - Ch. Kiener, Paris); sold November 1991 to Mrs. John Jay Ide, San Francisco; gift 1994 to NGA.

[1] See letter dated 28 October 1999 from Jacques Fischer, in NGA curatorial files.

Associated Names

Fischer, Jacques
Ide, John Jay, Mrs.

Exhibition History

1996: In the Light of Italy: Corot and Early Open-Air Painting, National Gallery of Art, Washington; The Brooklyn Museum of Art; The Saint Louis Art Museum, 1996-1997, no. 107, repro., as Forest Interior with an Artist, Civita Castellana.

2001: Paysages d'Italie: Les peintres du plein air (1780-1830), Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Paris; Centro Internazionale d'Arte e di Cultura di Palazzo Te, Mantua, 2001, no. 11, repro.

Bibliography

2000: Eitner, Lorenz. French Paintings of the Nineteenth Century, Part I: Before Impressionism. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 2000: 265-267, color repro.

2006: Conisbee, Philip, and Franklin Kelly. "Small is Beautiful." National Gallery of Art Bulletin, no. 34 (Spring 2006): 2-17, fig. 2.

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