Departure for the Hunt in the Pontine Marshes
1833
Painter, French, 1789 - 1863


West Building Main Floor, Gallery 93
Artwork overview
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Medium
oil on canvas
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 100.01 × 150.65 cm (39 3/8 × 59 5/16 in.)
framed: 135.89 × 170.82 × 16.51 cm (53 1/2 × 67 1/4 × 6 1/2 in.) -
Accession
2004.38.1
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Pierre-Hippolyte Aumont [d. 1865], by 1846.[1] Probably (sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 6 May 1870, no. 5, as Vue dans la forêt de Nettuno).[2] Private collection, France; (sale, Drouot Richelieu, Renaud-Giquello & Associates, Paris, 17 October 2003, no. 52); (Richard L. Feigen & Co., New York); purchased 27 February 2004 by NGA.
[1] According to the 2003 sale catalogue, Pierre-Hipppolyte Aumont likely owned this painting at the time he lent its pendant, Vernet's Hunting in the Pontine Marshes (NGA 1989.3.1), to an 1846 exhibition at the Bazar Bonne-Nouvelle.
[2] Bruno Chenique has suggested that this is the NGA painting, sold together with NGA 1989.3.1, which was lot 4, Chasse dans les marais Pontins, in the sale catalogue.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1831
Salon, 6th supplement, Société nationale des beaux-arts, Paris, 1831, no. 3159, as "Etudes de forêt."
Salon, Société nationale des beaux-arts, Paris, 1831, no. 2085.
Bibliography
1831
Planche, Gustave. Salon de 1831. Paris, 1831: 207.
Schoelcher, V. "Salon de 1831." L'Artiste 2 (1831): 30.
Farcy, Charles. "Salon de 1831." Journal des Artistes (7 August 1831): 100.
Pillet, Fabien. "Salon de 1831." Le moniteur universel (28 July 1831): 1274.
1833
Lenormant, Charles. Les Artistes contemporains. 2 vols. Paris, 1833: 1:96.
1855
Planche, Gustave. Etudes sur l'Ecole Française, 1831-1852, Peinture et sculpture. 2 vols. Paris, 1855: 1:120.
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: 354, as location unknown.
2003
Noon, Patrick. Constable to Delacroix. British Art and the French Romantics. Exh. cat. Tate Britain, London; Minneapolis Institute of Arts; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. London, 2003: 175, under no. 93, as location unknown.
Wikidata ID
Q20185773