Village by the Sea in Brittany
c. 1880
Artist, French, 1840 - 1916


West Building Main Floor, Gallery 91
Artwork overview
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Medium
oil on cardboard on hardboard
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 25.08 × 32.39 cm (9 7/8 × 12 3/4 in.)
framed: 37.15 × 44.45 × 3.81 cm (14 5/8 × 17 1/2 × 1 1/2 in.) -
Accession
2012.89.7
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(Wildenstein and Co., New York); purchased by 1966 by Paul Mellon [1907-1999], Upperville, Virginia; bequest 1999 to NGA, with life interest to Mrs. Mellon; life interest released 2012.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1966
French Paintings from the Collections of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon and Mrs. Mellon Bruce, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1966, no. 79, repro.
2013
Intimate Impressionism from the National Gallery of Art, Museo dell'Ara Pacis Augustae, Rome (exhibition title in this venue: Impressionist Gems); California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco; McNay Art Museum, San Antonio; Mitsubishi Ichigokan Museum, Tokyo, Seattle Art Museum, 2013-2016, pl. 24.
Bibliography
1992
Wildenstein, Alec. Odilon Redon, Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint et dessiné, Volume III, Fleurs et paysages. 4 vols. Paris, 1992-1998: 3(1996): 289, no. 1853.
Inscriptions
lower right: ODILON REDON
Wikidata ID
Q20188874